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We want a sub-YCNews
- bluishgreen 19y agoWe need a SUB-YCnews where the people of news.yc can post other stuff that they are interested in. That is exactly how startup inspiration will occur. Not by talking about startups all day till you bleed through your nose. We want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! [ :o| Consults wikipedia on how to start a lynch mob.]
- ivan 19y agoWho are these news.yc people?
- bluishgreen 19y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit
- SwellJoe 19y agoI'm pretty sure Elijah Wood does not have a startup.
- litepost 19y agoactually... Edinburgh International Film Festival Day 7 Elijah Wood has very blue eyes and is trying to start up his own record label, good news for Scotland as he's a fan of local heroes Franz Ferdinand and Sons ... www.iofilm.co.uk/festivals/edinburgh/2005/diary_24082005.php -
- nickb 19y agoThat's how Reddit became crappy. There's plenty of other aggregators that will give you news on anything you might imagine. PG, please keep YCNews focused and keep it niche. More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content.
- SwellJoe 19y agoNo, Digg is how Reddit became crappy. A pictures sub-reddit might help fix it. But news.yc definitely does not need subs. It IS a sub and nothing else.
- aquateen 19y agoReally? I thought Reddit went downhill about year and a half ago. More users = diluted content. I was almost surprised when I saw a Paris Hilton story hit the top not too long ago. I'm eagerly awaiting PG's new news site.
- davidw 19y agoI have a suspicion that most if not all of these communities go downhill when the number of people involved starts to really go north of the "monkey number": http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/06/11/dunbars-number-and-online-communities http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/06/11/dunbars-number-and-online-communities As someone comments, stumbleupon is a little bit better, because instead of having one home page for N people, which simply cannot scale, you are more closely connected to people who share your interests. I'm not sure how that works out for news sites, though. Part of the problem may be that, initially, concentrating your user community might be the only way to go beyond a critical mass of users, but then as growth continues, you do want to spread people out.
- bluishgreen 19y ago"More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content". I am not talking about More People, am I?. I am talking only about wider subjects. Relevancy is a tricky word nickb. Relevancy is a very tricky word.
- lupin_sansei 19y agoConstant Bush-Hating "Progressive" links and conspiracy theories are how reddit became crappy.
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- willarson 19y agoThis, somehow, seems like it might belong in the Feature Request section. :p I don't think the site has the user base to sustain subfeeds at the moment. Also it isn't really intended to be a one-stop source for everything, feel free to create a better one and ask us to migrate though. :)
- bluishgreen 19y agoYou seem to have the baggage of reddit, I am not talking about specific subfeeds. Their is no plural. Just a sub-feed which is the complement of what we have here. 1.News.YC. 2.Everything else. "feel free to create a better one and ask us to migrate though." I was going to create one and post a message here inviting people. I thought this is a simpler way to solve this problem. So I am trying this discussion first. :)
- donna 19y agoHelp me understand by showing me an example of what other stuff would be posted.
- rms 19y agostuff like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966
- ivan 19y agoagain no concrete reply in that thread. only: "I can't remember|I don't know exactly|etc ..." I think at news.yc is slightly everything interesting, the only thing I can't stand is "The True Zuckerberg's Story" 22 times a day.
- pg 19y agoThere are only two reasons you'd want to do that: (a) if the volume of submissions became too great for a single thread, or (b) if people wanted to talk about things that would otherwise be offtopic. (a) is obviously not the case yet. As for (b), this is a site about startups. If it's not at least somewhat related to startups, it shouldn't be here. If what you're really asking for is a general news site, not about startups, I'm thinking of starting one. But if I do it won't be at this url.
- bluishgreen 19y agoIt has become apparent that the quality of these social news sites depends on the quality/commitment of the society that is supporting it. It would be very interesting and useful to find out what the start up folks are doing on a daily basis besides thinking about start ups. Like I said, this could be a very good inspiration tool. Lisp was a landmark in my large scale understanding of computer science. I wonder what are the landmarks in understanding something like physics, or say bio-informatics. What are the problems that these people are facing? Hackers like learning just for the heck of it. In the process we can bring about useful start ups to these domains instead of making another calender application and stacking outside some big huge company in the hopes of being acquired. I am not asking for a general news site. I am asking for a site where news.yc culture and outlook is preserved, but the domain is slightly relaxed (Note: the relaxing should stop well before we start seeing LOL(pic) in the submissions). If you won't keep the same URL, its ok, as long as you some how figure out how to set up that "outlook".
- dshah 19y agoYou can check out http://www.DailyHub.com. http://www.DailyHub.com. Not nearly the traffic/submissions as News.YC but is focused on business geeks (and extends beyond just startups). Not for everyone, but if you're looking for decent content on marketing, strategy and other business topics, you might like it.
- cmars232 19y agoSub-sites suck. Add tags, problem solved.