What's different? Well, links are randomly selected with a weight relative to their score and age (think of it as a raffle system where links with higher scores have more tickets). So instead of using votes to rank content, I use them to alter how much exposure a link gets.
I'd appreciate feedback on where I can improve and some advice on how to make the site grow.
1) I would default on the light screen. Just easier to read (and change the orange text up top).
2) A WTF link somewhere may be good to explain how it works / what the idea is.
This is essential.
1) Indispensable: add a rss feed: many people read news sites using a RSS Reader instead of going to the site.
2) Two or three columns will be nice for a quick view without scroll.
3) Quickly add an openid/facebook/google login.
4) Comments: Although I don't like to distribute for the same URL in a zillion of sites, add something like disqus and forget to develop comments again.
That said, it's got a decent hit rate of showing me links I'm interested in so far.
And their score is selected how?
How did they do that?
Also, while most ISP's don't assign customers new IP's frequently, they do do it occasionally. (At least, Comcast in Denver does). I finally signed up for dyndns because I got sick of not being able to access my home machine from work every 6 months or so.
OpenID/Facebook connect (like another poster suggested) would be a good choice, but source IP as a login identifier? That's just plain dumb.
No, it's not going to keep track of me as I go from computer to computer, but if I care about that, I'm interested enough to login.