Hi
I checked it out, and yes, this is more or less what I am looking for.
I think the homepage for my site would look really close to your top bar (in your plugin example, screen pasted below) .
And the individual news item listing would have the reddit-style feel.
Is the Plugin ready for prime-time?
I’ll gladly support your development with donations if it’s close to being finished without any major bugs. I don’t see any link on your sample site for doing the donations, it only shows the amount. LMK.
EDIT: How are the thumbnail images set? As a custom field / upload in the EDIT Topic page? Is there a way to NOT SHOW the thumbnail image in the individual post listing? I saw in your samples that the thumbnail is the 1st image inside the post.