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Should news feeds be separated by topic

5 pointsjdavid12 comments

I can not help but notice, that the YC feed is starting to look more like that of digg, or reddit.

It would be great if we could add tags to articles so that they could be filtered on the fly by the hacker crowd.

I would suggest the raw feed, and then other feed tags might be business news, humor, hacks, edu, questions.

I just think it would be nice to get back to the "pure" news feed that was less a mirror of digg and reddit, but more about the inside details, of startups.

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I sort of agree. I'd like to see just:

1) Pure Startup

2) Everything Else

Might be a little bit difficult to differentiate at time, but one of the things I like about this site is that there is not a lot of clutter.

Nah. I didn't like it when this site opened up to topics other than startups because I thought we'd get a bunch of crap posts. The vast majority has been quality however, so I don't see any compelling reason to change anything.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827

We have topics!

1. Ask YC: ...?

2. This is my startup, feedback please!

3. YC Application

4. Everything Else

I think the site might end up getting sold like Reddit, for some ridiculous sum, and then someone will start ANOTHER one about Lisp startups. (that's an attempt at humour :)

Humor or not, it's quite possible.

How about just going back to the startup news that this site was great at conveying?

I find most of the startup news boring. I can only count a few that are good, for example pretty much any essay by PG. I think the addition of "hacker" related articles is great because it adds a lot. Many of the startup articles from before seemed like the "Get Rich Fast" books.

hmm, you have a bit of a point. But seriously, how many of the "hacker" articles that are worth reading aren't already picked up by reddit/digg/slashdot?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827

The problem isn't completeness but focus. Reddit is larger, so it would pick it up along with a lot more chaff.

Implement tags and filter by tag.

John.

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