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HN is a community. One community. Mostly centered around discussing topics arising on the front page. Add tags/filtering and you scatter the community in sub c
by d--b 4y ago
HN is a community. One community. Mostly centered around discussing topics arising on the front page.
Add tags/filtering and you scatter the community in sub communities and that’s precisely what HN wants to avoid.
- kaba0 4y agoI don’t think it would scatter the community — I almost never read some topics here because I am uninterested in them, or because the community on average is not too well versed in the specific topic so it is mostly just guesses/opinions. The most valuable thing about HN is the thoroughly educated comments, where under a related post the very creator of that program/language, etc might chime in to the discussion.