4 ms·
It's sometimes great pleasure to see how an original topic in HN starts delving into side topics that have nothing to do with the original. I thought it was a o
It's sometimes great pleasure to see how an original topic in HN starts delving into side topics that have nothing to do with the original. I thought it was a one-off thing but seems to happen quite a bit.
This is normal for any conversation.
Nothing wrong with a good fork!
The original post is sometimes just kindling for other discussions. What can you really say about gmail being down that is that interesting? (That is a question....)
I think that one's pretty easy: Why is it down? Technical hypotheses, discussion of past history of outages, etc.
Would be interesting if we could flag a side conversation and they appear collapsed by default, with a button like "Off Topic. Click to Expand."