Hacker News For Africa • Hacker News Board

Mahn wrote: post #8

Makes me wonder when will HN consider creating subcategories ala reddit. Surely the site gets enough traffic to take it to the next level.

yes, then we could have /h/hngonewild, shudder.

Re: Hacker News For Africa

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Post by untog » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 1:55 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #14

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Sigh. Please tell me you're trolling?

This has nothing to do with race. Africa is a geographical location, not a skin colour. Tech in Africa has a different set of challenges than the hugely US-centric Hacker News crowd- not to mention networking opportunities, etc.

It makes sense to create a space like this.

Re: Hacker News For Africa

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Post by Mahn » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 1:59 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #15

Mahn wrote: post #8

Makes me wonder when will HN consider creating subcategories ala reddit. Surely the site gets enough traffic to take it to the next level.

yes, then we could have /h/hngonewild, shudder .

It doesn't necessarily have to turn into a jungle, we could limit it to 10 or 15 subcategories max. for the whole site and see how it goes.

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Post by peterjancelis » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 2:01 PM UTC

There is also a Hacker News for India: http://hackerstreet.in/

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Post by Isamu » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 2:06 PM UTC

greg_mazurek wrote: post #4

Mobile phone usage is very high in Africa compared to the big screen experience. Wouldn't it be nice if your design was a better mobile experience?

If most mobile designs were better than this, then yes. Sadly while I do most of my casual browsing on a mobile device, I usually wish the web devs would stop trying ... just lower the bandwidth of the original site (I want this anyway) and give me that.

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Post by kofemanas » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 2:10 PM UTC

It's very sad to see with what problems they are dealing right now. They're late for probabbly 5-10 years in startups.