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Tying related HN posts together?
HN is awesome, but one place where it fails is doing a fuzzy lookup of your topic (by title and url) as you type them in. Sure it would make the interface a more complex, but it would help gather the discourse on umpteen threads into fewer threads. Perhaps it would still create a new thread with a new subject, but it would link to the older thread, maybe by setting the URL to be the older thread's URL. How about using the right side of the title/url/text area to have a scrollable dropdown of potentially related threads? Again, a minimal interface is great, but I see the same thread topics over and over again.
I'm sure there are quite a few threads on this very topic, but I'm not sure how to find them.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoYou could always use http://searchyc.com/ http://searchyc.com/ to find threads on the topics you are interested in.
- devmonk 16y agoThanks! Maybe the following could be added to HN orange nav following 'submit' link: | <a href="http://searchyc.com/">search</a>
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoIt's often thought that having the same topic submitted from several different sites isn't such a bad thing, and I half agree with that. What I'd like to see is the ability to link multiple submisions and get a single discussion thread. Your ideas are interesting and slick, but I really like the minimalism of the site as it is. It's hard to see how to get a good balance, but as they say, ideas are easy. Execution is what counts.