19 ms·
What I'd love to see is some kind of "meta" HN where all the ask HN, show HN and similar threads are posted. For two reasons: 1) those "meta" threads might gath
by Spittie 13y ago
What I'd love to see is some kind of "meta" HN where all the ask HN, show HN and similar threads are posted. For two reasons: 1) those "meta" threads might gather to a different audience and 2) many people are more interested in normal threads, and many are interested in the meta.
One could just go ahead and create a site for that, but obviously it wouldn't have the same traction as HN, and 99% of the value of HN is in the people posting here.
I do realize that it will not get implemented, but maybe consider this :) Maybe instead of creating a new section of the site, make those meta thread listen under an url like https://news.ycombinator.com/meta https://news.ycombinator.com/meta, so that one interested could see the latest threads without much effort.
- pearjuice 13y agoAnd one for bitcoin! And one for nodejs! And x, and y and z! You know what, let's put them in a subdirectory, like so: /h/bitcoin or /h/meta. And we call them sub-HNs! ...
- sarreph 13y agoAlthough a sub-HN approach sounds appealing at face-value, it's likely to fragment the site content a little too much. One of the things I appreciate most about HN is its ability to act as a filter with single point of convergence. I'm not sure I'd want to sacrifice that (personally), probably nothing more than for 'fear of missing out'.
- avalaunch 13y agoPretty sure he was being sarcastic, referencing reddit, subreddits, and the /r/ url schema.
- e15ctr0n 13y agoThere is an experimental Firefox add-on that attempts to sort out the ask HN, show HN, who's hiring and polls in their own tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-reader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-r...