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The problem isn't the organization, it's the depth. This site is based around news items and self-submissions that act like news items. 25-48 hours after submis
by GavinB 16y ago
The problem isn't the organization, it's the depth. This site is based around news items and self-submissions that act like news items. 25-48 hours after submission, no one will bother commenting on an item.
There's no room for depth of discussion in the current format, and so it gets repetitive in both news items and comments. This leads to the perception HN quality is degrading.
I think there's room to innovate in the management and threading of discussions, but it's more complicated than splitting into categories.
- rbanffy 16y agoI usually start my visits to HN with my threads page. I frequently answer comments well after articles leave the first page but only on threads I got involved. There are times I go back to the root discussion to read more, if I see some reason to assume much has changed after my last visit. Only when I see nothing new there is that I move to the home, and then to the "new" page, where I frequently do some flagging. If something has led me to perceive the quality as degrading, it has been a surge in articles that are much more "news" than "hacker".