The threads so far on this ongoing story:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25307167
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25292386
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25307167
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25292386
I’ve recently noticed that this commonly occurs ie multiple relevant threads that make up the top 50 of HN over say a 72 hour period, all related or rifts on a similar discussion.
Wondering if there is a way to group them as part of the same topic/submission? (thus saving you the manual work of posts like this). I appreciate this would (i) require a code change and (ii) would shift the HN model from individual threads based on 1 URL submission, but just thought I’d suggest it to the HN brains trust.
In other news: Keep up the good work that you do on HN to give this online community ‘structure’.
As someone who's worked on HN code since then, I can tell you there's no such "mindset", nor is it true that "we don't get any iteration on the feature set here" (11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25197418). It is true, though, that most of the changes are subtle enough not to be so visible, including the ones I'm working on this evening. Most of the effort goes into attempting to improve, or at least preserve, the quality of submissions and comments.