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I don't know what's inspiring all these worldbuilding posts to make the HN front page, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
by trynewideas 9y ago
I don't know what's inspiring all these worldbuilding posts to make the HN front page, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
- danso 9y agoWhat other posts have there been?
- zeptomu 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989538 There was recently a thread about crafting plausible maps (aka "mapmaking", a related topic).
- danso 9y agoThanks! These are titles that I imagine didn't catch my eye at the time.
- trynewideas 9y agoAlso https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793809 last month. Three in a month (that I've seen, at least) isn't a lot, but for HN it's enough to make me notice.
- protomyth 9y agoHN seems to go in a discovery path when a really interesting subject hits the front page. People follow the initial link with new links and we get many more articles about the same subject in a big burst. I do love seeing these waves. It would be interesting to track them and see what other articles about a subject didn't get the votes.
- Jaruzel 9y agoI dip into https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/ every so often, most of it is so-so, but occasionally there's some good stuff in there.
- jsemrau 9y agoThanks! That was actually really useful