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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?
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#52Why all of these "HN for x" sites also copy HN's less-than-optimal¹ look? (¹ I'm being nice here.)
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What benefits do you foresee from it?
Ability to just see all programming and science posts and not, say, finance/VC or political/latest geek soap opera ones.
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#56Makes me wonder when will HN consider creating subcategories ala reddit. Surely the site gets enough traffic to take it to the next level.
Hackernews isn't that active, it has a very big user base that view but the number of people actively contributing (comments, submissions) is pretty small. During the last 6 minutes there has been 30 comments on HN, for reddit there has been over 100 in the last 10 seconds. The new queue is a good place to look to decide if creating subcategories would be a good idea, most submissions don't seem that great and giving…