1. Poor discoverability of interesting discussion threads.
2. Large number of duplicate threads covering the same discussion.
3. Linear discussion threads without heirarchy, making it difficult to follow discussions.
4. Annoying and detracting user signatures.
In order to solve these problems, I propose a new kind of forum wth the following features:
1. HN style voting for bringing interesting discussions to the top.
2. Stack Overflow style similar topic search to prevent multiple threads for the same topic.
3. Heirarchical threaded discussions.
4. No user signatures/minimal 1 line text only signatures.
5. Hosted service.
6. Mobile optimized version.
Basically this would be a hosted HN/reddit clone without the link aggregation bit.
Does this idea hold merit? Would forum owners/moderators be willing to jump to such a forum?
