The problem with Europe is the multitude of languages. You can't target Europe with English language, or it will end up UK/US centric. That's pretty much unsolvable problem. Of course we can talk about things happening in Europe, but that doesn't make sense.
Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe
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#62You need to focus on something other than nationality - I do not care if my news comes from the US or from Europe (and I think I am in the majority here), I only care if it is interesting. Maybe a Hacker News with subsections, like Reddit?
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#63Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. Surely there's nothing relevant there?
Hands up if you have an English-language website in which the US is not the largest segment of users?
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#64I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good interesting news, and leading to a lot of duplication.
I would very much like to see instead a single additional site (HN') which would have a larger focus than simply the European scene, and where obvious US-centric post/comments would mercilessly be deleted.
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#65Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. Surely there's nothing relevant there? Hands up if you have an English-language website in which the US is not the largest segment of users?
I have several - one for the UK, one for India (in English) and one for Australia. Each targets the local audience and gets negligible usage from the US.
It's a big world. Most English speakers don't live in the US. Not even most native English speakers live in the US.
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#67At first I didn't liked the idea, but it could work as a way to filter out US centric posts and focus more on Europe. I think it needs some guidelines: is English the preferred language? If this is limited to Europe, is it ok to have posts related to other parts of the world?
Post and find out. As with all UGC sites, it becomes what users make it. Waiting for "the rules" will probably leave you waiting for a long time.
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#69I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good interesting news, and leading to a lot of duplication. I would very much like to see instead a single additional site (HN') which would have a larger focus than simply the European sce…
In the aftermath, I have been thinking if there is a way to hive off region specific posts into separate pages, but obviously still linking back to HN.
The other downside to HN is the obvious great mass/karma based in California/wider US that influences the front page of HN.
Work in progress :)
Feedback on specifics are being worked on furiously by Elias Haase in a coffee shop in East London - poor guy is struggling with coffee shop wifi to deploy - show some love: http://twitter.com/8bitpal
Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe
#70I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good interesting news, and leading to a lot of duplication. I would very much like to see instead a single additional site (HN') which would have a larger focus than simply the European sce…
Ahh but that then opens the door to an HN aggregator.
Get to work! Media is endless disintermediation.