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Re: Hacker News For Africa

#41

Post by tamersalama » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

Has anyone regarded this as fragmentation? There's a definite plus side of taking things local/regional, however we should avoid the brain drain imo.

Re: Hacker News For Africa

#42

Post by sharkweek » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 3:48 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 .

Good lord this would be hilarious, I can see it now --

First time coding in [P]ython, be gentle ;)

Re: Hacker News For Africa

#43

Post by brudgers » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

Mahn wrote: post #17

jiggy2011 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What benefits do you foresee from it?

Re: Hacker News For Africa

#44

Post by hack_edu » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:00 PM UTC

Let's save the world... with my startup!

Re: Hacker News For Africa

#45

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

kofemanas wrote: post #22

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.

HN is at its best just the way it is right now. There no need for subcategories.

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Re: Hacker News For Africa

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Post by IsaacL » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:28 PM UTC

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.

I've thought this for a while. At least having subcategories for /programming and /startups would solve a few issues that people have - if you only want programming related links, only read /programming.

Though personally I think there should also be categories for /illinformedrants, /pointlesstechdramaoftheweek, /motivationalfluff, etc. The people who like that kind of stuff can have it, and the people who don't like it can not have it.

Re: Hacker News For Africa

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Post by porker » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

Please add it to the list of sites like HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399879

Re: Hacker News For Africa

#48

Post by jiggy2011 » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:38 PM UTC

sharkweek wrote: post #42

jiggy2011 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Good lord this would be hilarious, I can see it now -- First time coding in [P]ython, be gentle ;)

We already have posts like that.

Re: Hacker News For Africa

#49

Post by BCM43 » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

1337biz wrote: post #24

jiggy2011 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

and /h/jailbait for any languages not older than 24 month

Would these be chroot jails?

Re: Hacker News For Africa

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Post by petercooper » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 7:14 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 .

To be honest, in the last few days, most of HN has already been /h/wtf