Ask HN: Will Y Combinator launch topic-related threads?

3 points·monkeygrinder··6 comments

I'm a UK reader. I've noticed that anything that anything that is not related to US very rarely gets on the front page here. Also, there is a lot of Apple news. Do people think it's worth creating sister sites - or even topic-related threads - so we can tag submissions and make them suited for different audiences? How would that work?

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I think tags/categories would be a great idea. For example, my favorite topics are the "Ask HN" ones, so it would be nice to be able to see just these by clicking a tag. Same thing goes for hiding all topics tagged "Apple". Even if the tags were "hard-coded" it would be useful to have say:

Ask HN, Rate My App, Tech News, Acquisitions, Job Postings, Hacker Tips,

etc...

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Thanks! I didn't even know that existed!

People always suggest that when there is a temporary overflow of stories about some topic they're not interested in. Don't worry, things will get back to normal eventually.

I think pg is generally against segregation, obviously segregation needs to happen if you are looking to scale the community to as many users as possible.

but I dont think the goal for ycombinator is to scale to lots of users, more to keep a relatively small self selecting group of people interesting in the same topic (technology startups).

at least I hope so.

I would love sub-reddit functionality e.g.:

news.ycombinator.com/hn/technews

news.ycombinator.com/hn/python

news.ycombinator.com/hn/webapps

etc.

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