I was just in a discussion about this news item: https://news.kagi.com/cybersecurity/2025101211/us-investors-acquire-pegasus-spyware-maker-nso-group
What particularly struck me is that the footnotes repeatedly link to Reddit, and that's kind of mediocre. It makes sense for us to us Reddit as a data source, since that's helpful for our algorithms, but it's rarely what a Kagi News reader cares about. Reddit is mostly commentary (sometimes heated and counter-productive argument), but usually not the interesting content.
Worse, in cases like this the link to the underlying article is pretty unintuitive -- you have to click on the image in order to get to the actual (much more useful) news story. So I suspect many naive users wouldn't even know what to do with this link, and will simply find it unhelpful.
So I'd strongly recommend that the footnotes in Kagi News should usually go to the source article, not the Reddit commentary: it's much more likely to be useful content for the reader.
Basically, I just think the footnotes should change from Reddit to the source article underneath Reddit. Conceivably we might link both (if the Reddit discussion adds apparently-significant nuance, or if we have some sort of contractual requirement), but IMO the source article is much more appropriate, most of the time.
