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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

There are too many of these shutdown threads for HN's front page to handle. Let's at least collect the links from today.

Denmark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550108

Italy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550623 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545430

E3 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22546931

U of Dayton: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547457

Warriors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548770

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Washington: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548190

To clarify, Washington the US state, not DC.

But also DC just published the same advisory. All events being cancelled

> There are too many of these shutdown threads for HN's front page to handle.

Really?

Before the admins have broken up topics into multiple threads for HN to handle better.

No doubt we've done that when the topics are separate, but that's not the case here. It doesn't make sense to have one front-page story about San Francisco banning public events, another about Denmark doing it, another about Italy doing it, three more about specific events that have been canceled, and so on. Front page space is the scarcest resource on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and the most important thing is that it not be spent too repetitively.

If you or anyone is interested in how we approach this, I recently wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527396 about it, and there are lots of links there to previous descriptions.

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