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Re: Hacker News For Africa

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Post by Achshar » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 7:52 AM UTC

jigsawhacker wrote: post #28

kofemanas wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"HN is at its best just the way it is right now. " How exactly is it the best? It doesn't even have a "forgot password" button.

It doesn't need one. Leave the password field empty when logging in. This is a site whose user base is very technical. Figuring out password resets is not really big of a deal.

Re: Hacker News For Africa

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Post by derleth » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 8:18 AM 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.

Makes me wonder when web fora will go all the way and simply recapitulate everything Usenet has allowed since the 1980s, by pushing all the complexity involved in threading and filtering into the clients and making servers just big, dumb message storage bases.

That way, all of these discussions would be rendered moot because threading/no threading and subreddits/no subreddits and troll filtering/no filtering and so on would be under the individual's control, as it should be.

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