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Since this is HN would you be willing to talk about the tech stack at all?",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"31175394","derac","I like the idea and execution, I also think the branding could be better.",[127,138,150,158,169],{"value":128,"source":101,"evidence":129},"Hard to find the good messages; no voting or highlighting",[130,134],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"31174169","cwkoss","Needs some sort of sorting or highlighting of 'upvoted\u002Fliked' messages. Afaict this is just a bunch of ad-hoc chatrooms built off user generated topics. I am not interested in…",{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"31176063","presentation","This lacks part of what makes Twitter and Reddit usable - the context of a conversation is clear. 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