Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox

Re:Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox by ColinWright on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:03PM (#10691224)

Significant amount of discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690754

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Re:Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox by nyc111 on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:29PM (#10691438)

Duplicates as two top stories with divided comments. Something's broken at HN.

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Re:Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox by ColinWright on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:38PM (#10691526)

Same story, different items, not really duplicates.

However ...

Yes, I've been saying for years that HN needs a meta-story feature where a single topic can be an umbrella for multiple submissions - there are so many of them.

But there isn't.

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Re:Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox by austenallred on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:04PM (#10691768)

I think the mods try to do that manually, it's just a matter of if/when they're around

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Re:Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox by ColinWright on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:16PM (#10691878)

Exactly - it's occasionally done by hand. I think the mods do a fantastic job, but this is one place where HN could be seriously improved. There are, on occasion, just so many duplicates, there is a real need (in my mind) for a proper method to clump/cluster them.

The submissions about Finland's 800 Euro basic income is another example - there are 12 or more submissions of that story, with more than one discussion.

There are more.

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