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Ask HN: Would a temporary coronavirus section be useful here?
I’d like to separate our usual news and the virus news. Just have a new link on the top besides “new”. Do you also think it’s a good idea?
- rolph 7y agoi think very much. There is a process for merging threads, if they are similar enough but "coronavirus" is too general of a tag for merging on that basis. i wonder how much extra work would be required to branch topics off into "hyperthreads" or something like that.
- yohann305 7y agoabsolutely. great idea
- dang 7y agoHN generally eschews tagging and categorization, because it's intrinsic to the site that it be non-siloed: everybody sees the same site. This has deep consequences for community: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20silo&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... /ask and /show in the top bar are partial exceptions, but those are not exactly topic categories.
- helph67 7y agoYou could suggest it as a new category for this site? https://bestofshowhn.com/ https://bestofshowhn.com/