Ask HN: Do you think Hacker News should begin with “subreddits”?

• Lobsters

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  Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

  

I don't think it would be good.

I think if there's reason for a niche, starting a clone is a better idea. In fact, that's already been done, like with https://lobste.rs/

I think that all forums degrade when there's more users. When people with a passing interest in a topic start bleeding in and leaving uninformed comments, that's kind of the beginning of the end for quality.

Also, we're always talking about the "small web," and this is a great example of how to keep it smaller.

• hn-search

  1,618 524 2.9 TypeScript

  Hacker News Search

  

Thanks. The main term I use to describe this is 'non-siloed' (kind of weird but I don't know a better name for this) and there are lots of past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=silo%20by%3Adang&dateRange=all....

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