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Better to begin to divide up Hacker News, so that there is not a single front news page. Can 10,000 community forums be wrong? At present there are already sev
by redtexture 13y ago
Better to begin to divide up Hacker News, so that there is not a single front news page. Can 10,000 community forums be wrong?
At present there are already several front HN pages: "new", "ask" "jobs", "comments" and "news".
It is past time to divide up the "news" page to reduce the focus on the front news page.
HN is actually many communities of interest, and it is desirable to reflect that in HN.
- minimaxir 13y agoCan 10,000 community forums be wrong? Yes, because quantity != quality. And even worse, it causes fragmentation. Reddit is a start, but requires a lot of manual effort to make Reddit an effective community tool.
- jflatow 13y agoYeah, maybe, but that's also a much bigger change. I guess it depends if HN is still growing much bigger or if it's somehow bounded. If it's bounded, then just increasing the size of pages might be good enough because you won't have to keep doing it to keep up.
- xentronium 13y agoWe can call such sections and smaller communities sub-hns. :)