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It seems like HN might need to think about subHNs
by iktorn 13y ago
It seems like HN might need to think about subHNs
- xerophtye 13y agoLike reddit?
- olasitarska 13y agoIt should definitely be a thing! I'd love to see a separate politics subHN. Or the one with all the Medium posts ;)
- krapp 13y agoI could see how hashtags or tags could work as well.
- zokier 13y agoLobsters[1] is the closest equivalent to "HN with tags" [1] https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- SuperChihuahua 13y agoAre people misusing the system as in do they add all tags available to get more traffic? I saw one who added these tags to one link: "assembly c compsci go java lisp lua php python scala"
- zokier 13y agoThe more tags post has, the less people will see it because users have an option to hide posts with certain tags. And of course moderators are there to adjust the tags if necessary.
- krapp 13y agoYeah, that's pretty much exactly what I was imagining. Unfortunately it's invite only.. To each their own.
- personlurking 13y agoI traditionally come here for the non-technical stuff so it'd be a great way to get specific. Otherwise, there are news sites which allow the user to deselect certain subject matter and leave the rest. Also an option.
- charlus 13y agoI think there's something to this - there's a plethora of websites sprouting up using the 'Hacker News for ___'. The semi-casual-professional platform makes sense for most industries. I work in arts/film, and although it probably wouldn't work for us, I'd love to see it done.
- SuperChihuahua 13y agoI'm running http://www.trejdify.com/ http://www.trejdify.com/ which is like HN but with business news only, and I have a modified spam-filter that sorts the articles automatically in the different categories. Maybe HN needs something similar?
- krapp 13y agoHow do you do the sorting? I've thought about doing something similar with the metadata of posted urls but obviously that might be ridiculously easy to game.
- SuperChihuahua 13y agoI use the same spam filter as in the book "Programming collective intelligence"
- bliti 13y agoThat would turn it into reddit. The purpose of HN is to promote YC, and not to make it into a general link aggregator.
- krapp 13y agoAnd yet, it's a forum and to a degree, also a link aggregator. If it's only purpose was to promote YC, only YC members would have accounts, but people already discuss all kinds of things here, not all of which directly relate to Y Combinator. People keep complaining as the site grows that the content no longer reflects their particular views. To me, there are two possible solutions to this, or three, if you count "just ignore it": enforcing a more narrow definition of what can and can't be posted, or else smarter filtering of content.
- bliti 13y agoI agree. But, the purpose is to promote YC. It may have started as something else, but this website is more powerful than a lot of big name news outlets. Money is made here, believe it or not. That is why a change in the formula is not something that may happen. Why change something that is already helping YC make lots of money?
- krapp 13y agoI can certainly see how, if it's working, they might not want to 'fix' it. But... users who feel better served by the content they get here might be more inclined to stick around, participate, become involved and eventually apply. Each of these "hacker news for x" sites that pop up are clearly attempts to exploit what appear to be gaps in what Hacker News provides, and maybe by extension they're taking a bit of the focus off YCombinator itself. Apps like hnnotify are providing functionality that could be added to the site. Just because it happens to be making money now doesn't necessarily mean some aspect of the design isn't keeping them from making even more money.
- bliti 13y agoprint 'Yes' * 100 But, let me ask you something: Would HN become what it has become without a strict dictator?