I'm glad you enjoy your time here hanszyme. People are probably sick of me saying it, but I don't eat at just one restaurant, why would I visit just one aggregator? There are a number of them out there and ideally, each would scratch a different itch. As you can tell, we didn't create Hubski to be a reddit clone, we created it to be something that didn't previously exist, something worth creating. Time will tell if we can sustain this.... The more I get to talk with you and others that are coming over from reddit, the more convinced I am that we can.
We are working on a number of things with the goal being a functional API, improved search capabilities and a more robust tagging system with suggested tags etc. As for how you can help now? Continue to invite your smart friends and online amigos to Hubski. Evangelize, to the right people, what you have seen here. Go rinx, spread the gospel of Hubski so that others might live meme free lives. :) Glad you found us! Let me know if you have any questions about the site etc.
Yeah, if there was an API, I'd be all over some app making. I got some cool ideas, but I guess I'll have to wait and see if they pan out.
I feel the same way. I go to reddit for my more specific/niche discussions (such as coin collecting, metal detecting, and so on) as well as the fact that it's fun to watch the gears of reddit's admin/mod/etc situation turn, especially lately. I haven't really been checking out Hubski as much as I hoped to. I do enjoy the... longer duration of Hubski stuff, I suppose. There's a heck of a lot of discussion worth reading here, and I've only really checked it on occasion to read my feed/global feed; I haven't quite dug down very deep yet but I already like it. And I don't have much of an opinion of Voat. It's got some interesting ideas as far as voting, but I haven't really been much into the topics that are more typical of that. Tons of it's about reddit (which I already see/read discussions about anyways on reddit itself), and the rest of it feels like a smaller reddit that's pretending to be more established than it really is, or something. That might not quite be the correct way to explain how I see it, but it's something along those lines. I know one of my earliest impressions of it was "reddit for people who aren't allowed in reddit". I know that's not really true, but the amount of reddit hate I saw made me feel that way. And now yesterday I hear about commentum and snapzu, but again I have pretty much no opinion of them, other than that commentum left a good first impression and snapzu left a worse one.
Yeah, I don't feel like it's a competition, even though I guess in some ways it is. We would like to have the smart, thoughtful, creative and interesting people find us and stick around, so in that sense I suppose I feel the need to ensure those people know about us. But, in the end people will go to the place that best satisfies their needs. What we have going for us more than any other place being mentioned is longevity. We've been around for nearly 5 years. Over that time we have implemented MANY things to combat some of the challenges that will no doubt occur at some of the other places. We also have a very clear mission that we will not deviate from. In short, this isn't our first rodeo :) Stick around wolf. Glad you found us 654 days ago! Wow.