It seems natural that these sorts of things would appear, especially around a community like HN. But what's the point? HN is already a community because of HN.
Isn't this like the programmer who wanted to create a standard to unify the n variations only to end up with n+1 variations?
There has been many attempts to produce something to compliment the hacker news site and allow for more unstructured chat. Not sure anything has really stuck though.
Isn't this like the programmer who wanted to create a standard to unify the n variations only to end up with n+1 variations?