Re:Longer Discussions in HN?
by qbasic_forever on Sunday February 05, 2023 @10:50AM
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Exactly, it's a huge chore to keep those kind of mega threads up to date and relevant too. And you get a lot of bikeshedding on other topics with people complaing that this should be in the mega thread, etc.
Re:Longer Discussions in HN?
by hypertele-Xii on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:13AM
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Not if you sort them upside down, newest first. Old comments increasingly pushed away to deeper pages, becoming an archive.
You could have an AI to summarize the last N comments, giving an overview on the most recent opinion.
This is where I am at. The notion that HN posts die off relatively quickly (i.e. within ~48h) is potentially a very important part of what gives them the quality they have today.
If every post was eternal and duplicates were always closed, you'd wind up with effectively perma-stickied comments in these god threads that become the law for that topic until the end of time.