Dedicate a forum to act as "hacker news" daily rating

[cpradio]

You mean this?

Discourse Hot Topics

Discourse now features a /hot topic list in core that can be added to your top menu Repository: GitHub - danskdynamit/discourse-hot-topics · GitHub This plugin creates a “Hot” sorting criteria and builds a custom topic list based on the result of the following formula: likes / ((hours since creation + 2) ^ gravity) Things to note: The default gravity multiplier is 1.5 but you can adjust this in the settings for the plugin. You can add “hot” to the list of menu items …