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The Twitter fiasco timing seems to be worth the repost, and looking at the new accounts on Subreply, it seems that it was gaining quite a bit of traction https:
by MerelyMortal 4y ago
The Twitter fiasco timing seems to be worth the repost, and looking at the new accounts on Subreply, it seems that it was gaining quite a bit of traction https://subreply.com/people https://subreply.com/people There's even a Derek Sivers account.
Would it be possible to un-dupe it?
(I don't care about the karma, if you can re-assign it.)
- dang 4y agoThe problem is that these things follow predictable chains of association and the core idea of HN requires not being predictable in that way. When the post was made a few months ago, it had that quality; but now it doesn't. I don't mean to disparage either the submission or the product. The submission was a fine one and I'm sure the product is too. The problem is that frontpsge space is the scarcest resource on HN* and we don't want the stories occupying those slots to be too correlated with each other or with the hottest topics. If there hadn't already been a big thread about it recently, I'd have let it through, even though "Twitter alternative" has been generating tons of HN submissions lately and counts as one of those correlations I just mentioned. But the combination of correlation and it being a recent repost is, I think, too much repetition. Admittedly these are judgment calls and others would decide them differently. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- MerelyMortal 4y agoOkay, thank you for the reply and explanation.