I was just replying to comments on a thread i didn't realize was a day old and it occurred to me, no one's here, they're all on the front page HN is already a

I was just replying to comments on a thread i didn't realize was a day old and it occurred to me, no one's here, they're all on the front page HN is already a chat room, kind of swarming from one topic to the next, but there's a few hundred people just sitting around talking, roughly guided by a stream of crowdsourced bookmarks don't really know what the benefit of dropping the topics and just having a free for all chat would be