Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox

nyc111 wrote: post #4

ColinWright wrote: post #3

Significant amount of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690754

Duplicates as two top stories with divided comments. Something's broken at HN.

Same story, different items, not really duplicates.

However ...

Yes, I've been saying for years that HN needs a meta-story feature where a single topic can be an umbrella for multiple submissions - there are so many of them.

But there isn't.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 07, 2015, 7:00 PM UTC

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Post by austenallred » Mon, Dec 07, 2015, 7:04 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #5

nyc111 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Duplicates as two top stories with divided comments. Something's broken at HN.

Same story, different items, not really duplicates. However ... Yes, I've been saying for years that HN needs a meta-story feature where a single topic can be an umbrella for multiple submissions - there are so many of them. But there isn't.

I think the mods try to do that manually, it's just a matter of if/when they're around

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 07, 2015, 7:05 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 07, 2015, 7:13 PM UTC

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Post by ColinWright » Mon, Dec 07, 2015, 7:16 PM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #7

ColinWright wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same story, different items, not really duplicates. However ... Yes, I've been saying for years that HN needs a meta-story feature where a single topic can be an umbrella for multiple submissions - there are so many of them. But there isn't.

I think the mods try to do that manually, it's just a matter of if/when they're around

Exactly - it's occasionally done by hand. I think the mods do a fantastic job, but this is one place where HN could be seriously improved. There are, on occasion, just so many duplicates, there is a real need (in my mind) for a proper method to clump/cluster them.

The submissions about Finland's 800 Euro basic income is another example - there are 12 or more submissions of that story, with more than one discussion.

There are more.