Sometimes newbie questions are the most interesting , it isn't this case, but let's see what happen.<p>The point is that I can't understand why Hacker News has so success..
Design is very poor and seems like 90's websites, the submit form is saddest of all the web. Social interaction is almost zero, is an involution of forums (which we know that they went out of fashion).<p>I know that I has some innovative business logic with its submissions, positive votes and karma. But I am sure that if anyone try to do something like this, (now or at 2007 when Hacker News was born), it would have less than ten visits per day.<p>I have to say that it generate me a great confusion, because as you know, all technologies and web sites move toward social media, innovated designs, javascript... We spend hours and hours trying to javascript works and making the best look & feel. And then you see how simple is Hacker News and I don't know if I have mistaken of profession and I had to be lawyer.<p>So, WHY we love it?<p>I hope you understand my humor, because my English is not the best.