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Comment by raincole | Hacker News Reader

The thing is HN doesn't even have a tag system so you can't "see gamedev posts only".

So far the most active community seems to be gamedev.net, but I feel it's in a long decline.

The 'Unreal community' has enough relevant content that it'd take a lifetime to go through it all. I'm sure the same is true of Unity.

Maybe not the more general stuff you might be after, but those forums+ deserve a mention.

+1 for tags. As HN has grown, the topics here have become so broad that it might be months before a particular topic you are interested in like gamedev makes it to the front page. It would be awesome to click a tag and only see submissions about that topic. Or better yet, unclick a tag and filter out submissions about that topic. I'm so sick of AI this and LLM that and DeepFoo and ChatBar, it would be so nice to just delete that noise in my own view of HN's front page.

Theres some sort of something quite special about HN and I suspect it's the lack of anything special.

I think it's just the "Ways to make a living in business"[0]:

> Be First, Be Smarter or Cheat

A lot of the most popular communities were simply first. Most others cheated. There's very, very few communities I can think of that were truly smarter and successful as a result.

I think we don't see the special, as I never see anything untoward on HN, and since I know the general population has some... Colorful people; the key here has to be the moderation team, and the front page mechanism (algo, manual, whatever it is)

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