There are tons of interesting feature requests as well as incredibly needed bug fixes listed in the "features you'd like" thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363. IMHO and with all due respect, by now it's pretty clear that PG is not willing/able to address them, even the most glaring ones (<i>cough</i> unknown or expired link).<p>Having a community built, opensource alternative to HN would allow us to implement the features we want and could be a pretty fun experiment.<p>I know HN is itself opensource, but it's written in an obscure language and, as far as I know, does not accept 3rd party contributions, so it pretty much negates the main advantages of an opensource project.<p>This new project would be based on these principles, which (IMHO) HN fails to address:<p>- Opensource code, built using a mainstream language/framework, so contributing is not just easy, but actually encouraged.<p>- Community transparency: Everything is public, including upvotes and downvotes to stories and comments.<p>- Moderation transparency: Having moderators which modify the titles, etc… is fine and sometimes a must. You just have to show a log somewhere attached to the story where users can see which changes were made and by whom.<p>- Have a nice and complete REST API, so 3rd parties and mobile/desktop applications can properly interact with the site without resorting to hacks or scrapping.<p>I would gladly spend a week writing the MVP and opensourcing it, to kickstart the process. So, what does the HN community think about it?