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Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#11

Post by bluishgreen »

pg wrote: post #8

There are only two reasons you'd want to do that: (a) if the volume of submissions became too great for a single thread, or (b) if people wanted to talk about things that would otherwise be offtopic. (a) is obviously not the case yet. As for (b), this is a site about startups. If it's not at least somewhat related to startups, it shouldn't be here. If what you're really asking for is a general news site, not about st…

It has become apparent that the quality of these social news sites depends on the quality/commitment of the society that is supporting it. It would be very interesting and useful to find out what the start up folks are doing on a daily basis besides thinking about start ups. Like I said, this could be a very good inspiration tool.

Lisp was a landmark in my large scale understanding of computer science. I wonder what are the landmarks in understanding something like physics, or say bio-informatics. What are the problems that these people are facing? Hackers like learning just for the heck of it. In the process we can bring about useful start ups to these domains instead of making another calender application and stacking outside some big huge company in the hopes of being acquired.

I am not asking for a general news site. I am asking for a site where news.yc culture and outlook is preserved, but the domain is slightly relaxed (Note: the relaxing should stop well before we start seeing LOL(pic) in the submissions). If you won't keep the same URL, its ok, as long as you some how figure out how to set up that "outlook".

Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#12

Post by bluishgreen »

nickb wrote: post #7
bluishgreen wrote: post #2

We need a SUB-YCnews where the people of news.yc can post other stuff that they are interested in. That is exactly how startup inspiration will occur. Not by talking about startups all day till you bleed through your nose. We want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! [ :o| Consults wikipedia on how to start a lynch mob.]

That's how Reddit became crappy. There's plenty of other aggregators that will give you news on anything you might imagine. PG, please keep YCNews focused and keep it niche. More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content.

"More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content".

I am not talking about More People, am I?. I am talking only about wider subjects. Relevancy is a tricky word nickb. Relevancy is a very tricky word.

Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#13

Post by bluishgreen »

ivan wrote: post #3
bluishgreen wrote: post #2

We need a SUB-YCnews where the people of news.yc can post other stuff that they are interested in. That is exactly how startup inspiration will occur. Not by talking about startups all day till you bleed through your nose. We want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! [ :o| Consults wikipedia on how to start a lynch mob.]

Who are these news.yc people?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit

Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#14

Post by bluishgreen »

willarson wrote: post #4

This, somehow, seems like it might belong in the Feature Request section. :p I don't think the site has the user base to sustain subfeeds at the moment. Also it isn't really intended to be a one-stop source for everything, feel free to create a better one and ask us to migrate though. :)

You seem to have the baggage of reddit, I am not talking about specific subfeeds. Their is no plural. Just a sub-feed which is the complement of what we have here. 1.News.YC. 2.Everything else.

"feel free to create a better one and ask us to migrate though."

I was going to create one and post a message here inviting people. I thought this is a simpler way to solve this problem. So I am trying this discussion first. :)

Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#16

Post by pg »

bluishgreen wrote: post #11
pg wrote: post #8

There are only two reasons you'd want to do that: (a) if the volume of submissions became too great for a single thread, or (b) if people wanted to talk about things that would otherwise be offtopic. (a) is obviously not the case yet. As for (b), this is a site about startups. If it's not at least somewhat related to startups, it shouldn't be here. If what you're really asking for is a general news site, not about st…

It has become apparent that the quality of these social news sites depends on the quality/commitment of the society that is supporting it. It would be very interesting and useful to find out what the start up folks are doing on a daily basis besides thinking about start ups. Like I said, this could be a very good inspiration tool. Lisp was a landmark in my large scale understanding of computer science. I wonder what…

What you're talking about is roughly what I'm thinking of starting.

Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#17

Post by lupin_sansei »

nickb wrote: post #7
bluishgreen wrote: post #2

We need a SUB-YCnews where the people of news.yc can post other stuff that they are interested in. That is exactly how startup inspiration will occur. Not by talking about startups all day till you bleed through your nose. We want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! [ :o| Consults wikipedia on how to start a lynch mob.]

That's how Reddit became crappy. There's plenty of other aggregators that will give you news on anything you might imagine. PG, please keep YCNews focused and keep it niche. More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content.

Constant Bush-Hating "Progressive" links and conspiracy theories are how reddit became crappy.

Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#18

Post by aquateen »

SwellJoe wrote: post #10
nickb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's how Reddit became crappy. There's plenty of other aggregators that will give you news on anything you might imagine. PG, please keep YCNews focused and keep it niche. More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content.

No, Digg is how Reddit became crappy. A pictures sub-reddit might help fix it. But news.yc definitely does not need subs. It IS a sub and nothing else.

Really? I thought Reddit went downhill about year and a half ago. More users = diluted content.

I was almost surprised when I saw a Paris Hilton story hit the top not too long ago. I'm eagerly awaiting PG's new news site.

Re: We want a sub-YCNews

#19

Post by dshah »

You can check out http://www.DailyHub.com. Not nearly the traffic/submissions as News.YC but is focused on business geeks (and extends beyond just startups).

Not for everyone, but if you're looking for decent content on marketing, strategy and other business topics, you might like it.

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