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[–] roboticon ago 

I think the fact that it feels like a hastily-reskinned reddit is both the best and worst thing about it. It's familiar to all of us, but also it doesn't really have an obvious killer feature to make it seem like more than a reddit-clone with lax administration. I think if it could do its own image hosting, instead of having us rely on an imgur-clone as well, that could do it.

Actually, it's been built from the ground up. The Reddit CSS skin is the only thing that was cloned from Reddit.

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[–] myrrlyn 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah I know, it's even in my favorite language. I tried to use subjective language on reddit-copy-ness, "feels like a hastily-reskinned reddit" and "seem like more than a reddit-clone", to convey that. I highly doubt the average user or journalist will look at the source code running the place, see that it's completely new, and go "ah this is entirely separate from any other site"; rather, they'll compare it's appearance and usage to other places and come up with "oh, it's pretty much exactly like reddit". It's got the same tree structure of comments, link/text submission process, vote controls, community organization (v-name instead of r-name, but otherwise a subverse is exactly a subreddit), etc.

I'm not saying this is a bad thing; I always liked reddit's interface structure and find voat a marked improvement on it. But without something obvious to differentiate it from reddit, what's to make people new to both go here, and not there?

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[–] roboticon 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You're right, it feels like it's intended to be a clone. I don't think Atko wants to change the formula -- he just wants to change the community. Which I'm all for.