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Genuine question: are these repeats a bad thing? When the articles appear simultaneously it's obviously a pain to have discussion fragmented, but if they're ap
by estel 15y ago
Genuine question: are these repeats a bad thing?
When the articles appear simultaneously it's obviously a pain to have discussion fragmented, but if they're appearing distinctly, is it such a bad thing if people are discovering something new?
- petercooper 15y agoI think that's quite subjective. It may not be a bad thing! I just think it indicates fragmentation of the readership in a way that didn't used to occur. Perhaps this is a natural part of a community growing beyond a certain size. That said, there was once a time when any new front page link was something I was sure not to have seen before. Now? Unless it's up to date news, I've seen perhaps 1 in 5 links on Twitter, Reddit, or even my own newsletters already. People are getting 3 week old JRuby release notes on the front page nowadays fer chrissakes..
- atakan_gurkan 15y agoI am fine with repeats, but I think a mechanism that detects "related" articles and providing links to previous/later discussions would be useful. I certainly would like to hear more of what people say if a topic or a specific article interests me. I am not necessarily advocating that this should be a built-in feature; on the contrary, I think it would be more elegant as external feature and I think in that form it would be more useful, since this sounds like one of those problems where the general solution is easier than a particular solution