<story><title>Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News</title><url>http://www.hnlike.com/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>It&apos;s worth thinking about the question of whether this will make HN better or worse.  I&apos;m inclined to think worse.  It will bring more random people to the site, and (to the extent it works) it will mean that an article&apos;s score on HN will depend partially on the completely random factor of whether the author included this button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>As someone who has experience in this area, let me just say that it probably won&apos;t drive all that much traffic.  Most people ignore those little buttons.&lt;p&gt;It will however put an insane amount of load on whatever server it is served from.&lt;p&gt;Supporting buttons was the first thing that drove reddit to getting a CDN.  We also made it cache the score for a few minutes for non-logged-in users, which helped alleviate a lot of load.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News</title><url>http://www.hnlike.com/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>It&apos;s worth thinking about the question of whether this will make HN better or worse.  I&apos;m inclined to think worse.  It will bring more random people to the site, and (to the extent it works) it will mean that an article&apos;s score on HN will depend partially on the completely random factor of whether the author included this button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rodh257</author><text>Is there a way to make it display only to people logged into HN?</text></comment>