People.

But seriously, it's 2014. node.js is a thing, has been for a while.

OP here, we just tried to pick a language that the most people would know. I'm pretty bad at JavaScript, but I know enough to get things done so we went with that.

Perhaps it will be a site focused on Nodejs news as only Nodejs developers will contribute in which case you wouldn't be interested anyways?

No need for the negativity! I could easily say who the f* writes web apps in ___ and get much praise/hate.

"Perhaps it will be a site focused on Nodejs news"

They could call it "Hacker News".... ;)

Sure you could, but the point is rather to require this specific language. No option is totally without controversy, but this choice ensures a very specific audience (not just programmers/technical people, but ones who are into node) and anyone outside the audience is implicitly not welcome at all.

hmmm maybe you can make SEVERAL of these sites each in a specific tech so each person can get into their niche of interest

And call it "reddit" ! :)

or different implementations all linked to the same DB ?

Although it seems a bit of a waste of time.

Hell no. This with metrics can be the end for all "X doesn't scale" or "X is easier than Y". With real code.