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I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_Ame

I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good interesting news, and leading to a lot of duplication. I would very much like to see instead a single additional site (HN') which would have a larger focus than simply the European scene, and where obvious US-centric post/comments would mercilessly be deleted.

rayhano 15y ago
In the aftermath, I have been thinking if there is a way to hive off region specific posts into separate pages, but obviously still linking back to HN. The other downside to HN is the obvious great mass/karma based in California/wider US that influences the front page of HN. Work in progress :) Feedback on specifics are being worked on furiously by Elias Haase in a coffee shop in East London - poor guy is struggling with coffee shop wifi to deploy - show some love: http://twitter.com/8bitpal http://twitter.com/8bitpal
freyfogle 15y ago
Ahh but that then opens the door to an HN aggregator. Get to work! Media is endless disintermediation.
alain94040 15y ago
It's called tags. Imagine if any post on HN could be tagged by anyone. Then, you are free to only read HN/Europe (all posts tagged Europe). Or browse the regular home page. It won't happen because HN has made a conscious choice of not going after all the "web 2.0" gimmicks, but sometimes you wish it wasn't completely the case.
- rayhano 15y ago
  Would be so much more useful with some restricted tagging :)