HN is growing, and with the expansion comes more threads and posts. Instead of creating another reddit clone, I think HN could benefit from having additional categories/boards/"subreddits", whatever you want to call them.
Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
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Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#2It wouldn’t work because it wouldn’t benefit YC.
HN is an inspiration for how to run a platform and have it be extremely engaging. To tell you the truth I still don’t get why people are so obsessed with “Reddit” and not “HN” alternatives.
But I can see how HN is also in a unique position where a lot of the site users remember the early days of the web, back when things were a lot simpler, and individual focus was not diluted in 100 different directions.
Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#3I would feel like some dudes from ycombinator were trying to cash in on the training data craze.
Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#4I'd lose interest pretty much overnight, HN doesn't need changing, it's already an island of success and stability in an ocean of failure.
Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#5No thanks, I use HN because it is a single feed and forced interaction with other views.
Subreddits encourage group think, discrimination, and dilution
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#6I don't know about categories, but I would love it if posts were tagged somehow so I can filter away all the crypto stuff that gets posted.
Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#7It could be made optional but not required where you'd have a choice of either Category View or Feed View.
Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#8Since it is weekend, I was looking for a side-project, and came up with almost this.
HackerNews clone but with dedicated 'domains', aka subreddits, to discuss specific areas of interest.
For example, react community could have their own domain, ai their own, and so for python and rust.
A place where you can ask questions, show off your projects, share interesting links you found and possibly post job announcements. And of course discuss in the style of hacker news with tree based comments.
What do you think, is it worth the time?
Basically a hybrid of reddit and hackernews.
Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#9If that's the sort of thing you want, you might consider a site which features these.
Tildes has a curated selection of topics: https://tildes.net>
Lobste.rs is far more similar to HN in overall dynamic ... and includes tags: https://lobste.rs/>
HN has long held out against groups, tags, or topics in the interests of providing a single unified community (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11843220>, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716718>, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098> for example).
HN does have an excellent site search (through Algolia) which may serve some of your interests. There are also curated collections of posts available under the "Lists" link (https://news.ycombinator.com/lists>) including Best, Invited, and 2nd Chance, which tend to serve threads of better-than-average quality.
When using search, it's often helpful to search recent comments rather than posts as the former tend to be a larger and richer target offering more hits, as compared with the often vague and nondescriptive 80-characters of a post title itself.
Re: Ask HN: How would you feel if HN had “subreddits”/categories?
#10I'd definitely welcome having tags/categories so that I can filter out topics I'm not interested in.