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Now we need Startup Hacker News.
by markbao 17y ago
Now we need Startup Hacker News.
- jlees 17y agoWhat about a generic My Hacker News with a classifier trained on each person's personal "I want to see / I do not want to see" preferences? :>
- mahmud 17y agoHN doesn't need subreddits.
- diN0bot 17y agowhy? I notice you've received (18) upvotes, which in this case probable means agreement, so there's obviously some support for not having this feature. Is it specifically subreddits to avoid? I completely agree that subreddits are a terrible implementation of user-content customization because they force items into a single-parent hierarchy. However, categories that filter content according to different weights would be quite useful. By pre-selecting these categories and thus pre-computing them, it would even be reasonable to implement (actual per-user filters might not work so well in real-time).
- scott_s 17y agoThe fear I have is it would splinter the community.
- coconutrandom 17y agoBut HN has become so big. It not logical to think that everyone will be interested by everything now.
- scott_s 17y agoI'm not convinced the community has become so big that subdivisions are necessary.
- mbrubeck 17y agoI don't want to see the community fragmented into walled gardens like subreddits (I'd rather see everyone focus on submitting the best possible links to the front page), but it would be interesting to have a front-page algorithm (or an additional page on "lists") that tries to predict not the best links, but my best links.