News.YC isn't trying to compete with Digg and Reddit. Really; the last thing I need is to have to manage servers with that kind of traffic. The goal here is just to be the watercooler of the startup world. That is a quite small world, tens of thousands at most. I'd much rather this site had really good comments than huge volumes of traffic.

No doubt. What's interesting though is that the level of discourse has been really high, and apparently we're good folks to have visiting other sites (according to this article).

Have you updated your traffic graphic recently? It'll be interesting to see if we can maintain good participation after Startup School and this batch of YC applications.

Traffic's been rising consistently. Today (GMT) we got 21,117 page views, the second highest day so far.

It was scary to me how quickly I've stopped going to reddit. So much for being addicted.

I used to read reddit, never commented/submitted anything, however. Reddit, these days, is full of things I have absolutely no interest in. n.yc is perfectly aligned with my interests. I hope it doesn't degenerate into another reddit.

Addictions only last until you find something more addictive.

I think any site with quality content is going to see a higher "quality" visitor from sites like news.YC.

Steve Yegge, for example, probably gets a lot of "quality visitors" from programming.reddit.com. The interests match, and he has lots of good content.

I agree.

news.yc takes the bulk of my web browsing (hard to believe, right?) and reddit is still great for non-startup buzz. I'll peek at digg every so often but the quality of top submissions seem to keep dropping.

The reviewer at CenterNetworks is right on with his observation on the quality of referral traffic. The users of news.yc are less prone to be the visit-quickscroll-exit types that inhabit a lot of social news sites.

This is a very positive review of what's going on here. The video is pretty interesting too.

Their videos are not very good (I apologize ahead of time if it's your web site.) But, they are the best (and only) I've seen. I think it's a good trend.

Hi - Allen here from CN (I made the video) - can you help me understand what you don't like about it? I know the part at the beginning where I say my name is a bit off but I try to do pretty good screencasts. As soon as I can sign some more advertisers, I am going to try to buy better video equipment. But please let me know so I can try to improve as much as possible! --- Allen

don't worry about it. It's not my website. This is the only video I've seen by them. I think it's cool that they're adding video reviews though.

Hey, cool for us. Thanks PG--we're building a nice spot here.