Like Reddit, anyone can create forums, post links, text, photos, comment and vote.
Difference is that there are only forum-level profile pages. No /u/username. Only /forum1/u/username, or /forum2/u/username, etc. This design is to prevent others from easily spying you by watching what forums you have joined and what posts you have made on other forums.<p>Like HN, Forum menu is made of "hot","new","comments","ask".
There seem to be a common problem in many Reddit forums: Photo/video submissions are more likely to be upvoted and as a result the "hot" pages were filled with media posts. Many valuable discussions are hard to see. Thanks to HN I found a solution to solve this problem. It is to simply add a "Ask" tab on the top menu to show all discussion posts. All posts start with "Ask:" go to that tab. We didn't use "discussion" tab because we think the line between a media post and an "ask" is more clear than a "discussion".<p>Like Twitter, post listing is in News Feed style, showing more details when we browsing. We want to allow low-effort content, means you can post status, memes, etc, as long as they are on-topic in the forums.<p>Geeki is now launching beta. Any advice and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!