How come there is no search functionality? I think that is a higher priority.
Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
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Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#32How come there is no search functionality? I think that is a higher priority.
There's a search link at the bottom of every page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there's also http://SearchYC.com
Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#33Yes I would love to have tags on hn
Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#34>Here's something I prepared earlier: I'm working on a site based on news.arc that has tags. They can be followed, and used to sort stories. http://hubski.com However, hubski is a general news site. Since HN has a focus to begin with, I am not sure how helpful it would be. I would be interested in a custom feed that follows people on HN though. -I have that implemented on my version. There are some people on Hacker N…
"Since HN has a focus to begin with, I am not sure how helpful it would be." HN has focus... in theory . But even according to the guidelines, what's on topic is: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." In practice that allows for a very wide rang…
Yes, you might be right. In fact, it might be a good way for the site to provide both with a little bit less competition between tech and non-tech posts.
The tough part is getting tags right. I went the organic route, as I assumed that I would either overlook topics that might be needed, or create redundancies. My site is still too small to see if it works well. I'm not a big fan of the subreddit approach, as I think it divides submissions and attention to a large extent.
Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#35Is there really a downside? Could make a button that allows you to turn off seeing tags at all. Unless there was some kind of a you can have one thing but nothing else I don't see any downside to it.
I can think of two downsides. First, there might be a better system of organization than “tags”, and if PG implements tags, then even if a better organization system is found later, PG will not want to spend even more time implementing this better system, so we would be stuck with an inferior system. Also, even if tags turn out to be the best system of organization, we would use up goodwill if we asked PG to make them for us, and he might decline to spend time upgrading HN in other useful ways later.
Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#36No. One of appeals of HN is the simple interface.
Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#37Yes.
But more so I'd like the ability to curate and follow lists of people that post comments and articles that I am interested in. It seems to me that this idea from twitter could be used to stop Eternal September problems on sites like HN and reddit (the subreddit system is not fully effective.)
Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#38Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#39Yes. But more so I'd like the ability to curate and follow lists of people that post comments and articles that I am interested in. It seems to me that this idea from twitter could be used to stop Eternal September problems on sites like HN and reddit (the subreddit system is not fully effective.)
Have you seen http://hackerfollow.com/ ??
There's also http://beta.fedang.com/
Re: Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
#40Might work as long as tags are not user defined. The submitting user has to select from existing tags. Keep a few to begin with. For example: startups - news about or related to startups - IOW what this site was supposed to be about initially gadgets products - new products from existing non-startups hacking - related to programming business advice other - stuff that probably needs to be flagged unless enough people…
Thanks for suggesting this, as it points out that people come to HN with different mental taxonomies. My fixed-tag system would subsume three of your tags into "startup business advice and paypal alternatives", whereas "hacking" would have enough sub-categories to distinguish "new ways of making drop-shadow gradients in CSS3" from articles about versioning tools and clever exploits for security holes.