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I don't think there is anything else quite like HN. I sometimes wish I knew how to better find certain things here or something. I don't really want tags or si

I don't think there is anything else quite like HN. I sometimes wish I knew how to better find certain things here or something. I don't really want tags or silos. I'm not great at searching the site. Given how often questions exactly like this post show up here, I'm clearly not the only one who wishes they could find HN-like discussion for a specific subject area. I'm bothering to make this comment in hopes that one of two things will happen: 1. Someone will give me a solution for how to more readily find what I want on HN. 2. Someone will create some kind of tech solution in response to seeing this observation.

ALittleLight 5y ago
I'm not sure this is exactly what you're looking for, or possibly you already know about this, but I always use algolia when searching hackernews (make sure to select search by comment if you want discussion). https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/
- DoreenMichele 5y ago
  I'm familiar with it. One of my interests is medical information. You can't put "medical" into it and have the latest "premium" articles come up. I would love an easy way to readily find recent active discussions and articles with high karma for medical topics. But you have to search on words that were actually used in the title. And that's kind of a variation of the question in this post. If there was an easy way to find "crypto related articles and discussion" right here on HN then you wouldn't need to ask "What other forum can I go to?" I've been on HN more than a decade. It's bigger than it used to be and a lot happens here. It's easy to miss out on a lot of things pertinent to your interests. I don't know of an easy fix for that.
0x008 5y ago
I just use the search, filter by date and then I find the most recent information regarding topic or website xy.
- DoreenMichele 5y ago
  Maybe what I need to be doing is checking the lists which isn't a habit of mine.

ALittleLight 5y ago

I'm not sure this is exactly what you're looking for, or possibly you already know about this, but I always use algolia when searching hackernews (make sure to select search by comment if you want discussion). https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/

DoreenMichele 5y ago
I'm familiar with it. One of my interests is medical information. You can't put "medical" into it and have the latest "premium" articles come up. I would love an easy way to readily find recent active discussions and articles with high karma for medical topics. But you have to search on words that were actually used in the title. And that's kind of a variation of the question in this post. If there was an easy way to find "crypto related articles and discussion" right here on HN then you wouldn't need to ask "What other forum can I go to?" I've been on HN more than a decade. It's bigger than it used to be and a lot happens here. It's easy to miss out on a lot of things pertinent to your interests. I don't know of an easy fix for that.

0x008 5y ago

I just use the search, filter by date and then I find the most recent information regarding topic or website xy.

DoreenMichele 5y ago
Maybe what I need to be doing is checking the lists which isn't a habit of mine.