<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.theonion.com/static/CACHE/css/2903347c3113.css" type="text/css" media="all">EDIT: oops, you're OP. Ever thought of suggesting this CSS to reddit?
I post on HN but don't have an account on Reddit, but I think pigeon-holing an entire community is more likely to be considered childish and reactionary. This isn't "our site vs your site" and some sort of tribal war. What about this site or its content has irritated you?
(Main parts of Reddit I do read are AskScience and AskHistorians and they are, for the most part, excellent. Anything but juvenile.)
Or are you just saying being able to voice ones opinion without a torrent of downvotes is a step in the right direction?
And it's also questionable whether this is a parody of 'The Onion'. It seems to be a parody of world news, branded with The Onion.
But copying the name and look and feel of an existing site in so casual a manner seems very lazy and is off-putting.
Edit: I'd better let you judge what sounds nice.
Edit 2: Hmm. Let's try my Rebrand-O-Matic:
On1on — On-1-on — 1-on-1 — Ioni — iOni.
You can illustrate it with a sleek iPhone-like icon of an oni (a Japanese demon) holding an onion.
http://ioni.io is available for $50, which may or may not be too much for this project.
More seriously, though, http://allium.org is available for $10.69 from NameCheap. "Allium" is the Latin name of the genus to which onion and garlic belong.
Also, a quick way to avoid hot-linking the images is to use a service like Cloudinary, it will proxy them for you with little code change.
There's also http://www.ruddl.com/ as a Pinterest-Reddit mashup, but they only have a few subreddits.
http://i.imgur.com/3EYKseY.jpg
Generally those are more harm than they're worth, as nobody uses them and they annoy the user (especially since they're in the way of what I'm actually trying to read).
Very confusing.
Also, as said before, hotlinking to another site's resources is not a good idea. At all.
Execution aside, I don't like the idea. The Onion provides well written fake news. The content that you're linking to is a poor excuse for news; its the low-hanging fruit of the internet. I couldn't see myself browsing this stuff. In fact, the reason I browse HN is to not have to deal with content like this.
Aside from that minor confusion, the site's purpose is absolutely hilarious and I applaud the tongue-in-cheek approach.
