Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

Do you have any plans to write a technical overview of your implementation?

There may be value in the determination of consumer-side article rank by a (weighted) average that encompasses both the net rank of items posted to the article + the rank of the article itself.

I'm sure you've already thought about the item/article interaction in terms of effect on overall article ranking. UI/X-side, the effect (of ranking an item within an article) is unclear now, and I am fine with that as an early user.

Moving forward, developing a ranking formula that weighs article rank against net rank of all of the article's items will be a usage-informed improvement that provides great value to users.

That ranking formula, as well as making the result of a "ranking" interaction obvious to the user, will help the understanding of how such interactions work.

With a social answering/ranking/voting application, creation of, and/or tweaks to, the formula that determines the effect of interactions will have a huge influence in shaping the culture of the individuals that interact with the application.

Some people may express their honest preference, but a major motivation for people to interact with something like this is to change the average, and voting at the extremes maximizes their power.