Hubski, my idea of a better aggregator

In plain words

Hubski is a content aggregator that combines discussion features similar to Hacker News or Reddit with a sharing model inspired by Twitter. Users build personalized feeds by following people and tags, and content spreads through the community via shares rather than votes. Posts support comments and tagging, allowing users to discover content through both individuals they follow and topics of interest. The platform was designed to handle diverse submissions while maintaining quality as it scales.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

In the maker’s words, at launch

One year ago, I downloaded the news.arc code and decided that I would teach myself programming by building a better aggregator. At that time, I had some rudimentary HTML knowledge, and little FORTRAN under my belt. I knew that I wanted an aggregator that could support a wide range of submissions, and one that could…

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