A suggestion: since the stories are a bit lean, why don't you replace your story feed for the time being with some other feed? Say scrape the front page of news.ycombinator or something.

Then, as the site gains membership, slowly turn down the spigot of stories from other sites, and turn up the spigot on yours. (Alternatively, just weight stories that originate from the Pipedot pipe higher than from other feeds).

I don't know how to fix the lack of comments.

And now just need to be able to store the comment slider positions as a preference!

And now just need to be able to store the comment slider positions as a preference!

Yes. I can't figure out how to filter comments below a threshold on this site, but it was obvious on Soylent. Missing feature, perhaps.