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What are you hoping to accomplish? Is this to showcase some new ideas, or do you hope to actually get some traction?

If it is the former, you ought to write some blog posts to explain how your conception is different than the current news.arc software, and what the benefits would be to this community.

If the latter, you've got the classic chicken-and-egg problem. There are known ways to deal with that, of course, but it's not an easy row to hoe.

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I would say both. I would say it is substantially different, consider the following:

"This is a fundamental flaw in communities on the net in general, they don't gracefully combine different scopes." - Hacker News comment by jacquesm

You still didn't answer his question of what exactly makes your solution a "graceful combination of scopes". Follow the advice and write some kind of post that explains what makes this solution better

I'll work on a post - thanks for the feedback.

But to answer your question, by "graceful combination of scopes" I mean you can follow Hackers in New York (people who have saved Hackers + New York as a favorite) just as easily as you can share stuff with Hackers interested in Ruby on Rails (Hackers + Ruby on Rails) or even with Hackers interested in Ruby on Rails in New York (Hackers + Ruby on Rails + New York).

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