Hubski: part blog, part news-aggregator, part social-feed.
Hubski is designed around the concept of sharing topically-broad, thoughtful discussion. In functionality, Hubski is part news-aggregator, part blogging-platform and part social-feed. Up front, Hubski looks and works most like a news aggregator, like HN. Hubski enables you to tag each post with a hashtag, and to follow tags and other users. Doing so builds your own personalized ‘hubfeed’ composed of the kind of content you like. To make sharing less dependent on the frontpage and voting, users can ‘hub’ a post they like, which sends it to the hubfeeds of their followers. This works like…
Hubski: part blog, part news-aggregator, part social-feed. launched on May 6, 2011 with 12 votes, #53 of 217 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.
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Hubski is a content-sharing platform that combines news aggregation, blogging, and social networking features. Users follow tags and other users to build a personalized feed, and can "hub" posts they like to share them with their followers. The platform emphasizes thoughtful discussion on broad topics and supports embedded images, videos, and links within posts. It's designed for people who want curated, topic-focused content sharing without relying on algorithmic ranking systems.
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Hubski is designed around the concept of sharing topically-broad, thoughtful discussion. In functionality, Hubski is part news-aggregator, part blogging-platform and part social-feed. Up front, Hubski looks and works most like a news aggregator, like HN. Hubski enables you to tag each post with a hashtag, and to…
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