Trump Wins Second Term

RafelMri wrote: post #3

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647

The news you're referring to is 5 hours old... A lot has changed since then...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647

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Re: Trump Wins Second Term

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Post by RafelMri » Wed, Nov 06, 2024, 12:34 PM UTC

caution wrote: post #4

RafelMri wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The news you're referring to is 5 hours old... A lot has changed since then...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 | 2046 comments

Perhaps I'm mistaken...but in an ideal forum, comments should be linked to the specific content of the article in question. While I agree that consolidating comments may be appropriate for scientific articles...I believe it's less suitable for ongoing news stories. As new information emerges, comments should be able to address the latest developments accordingly.

Re: Trump Wins Second Term

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Post by dang » Wed, Nov 06, 2024, 4:25 PM UTC

RafelMri wrote: post #5

caution wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 | 2046 comments

Perhaps I'm mistaken...but in an ideal forum, comments should be linked to the specific content of the article in question. While I agree that consolidating comments may be appropriate for scientific articles...I believe it's less suitable for ongoing news stories. As new information emerges, comments should be able to address the latest developments accordingly.

You're right in principle, but I'm not sure there's any SNI* that isn't completely dwarfed by the top-level story. In that case we'd just get the same discussion split across several threads with no merit to keeping them separate.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...