Re:Longer Discussions in HN?
by college_physics on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:19AM
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Search is indeed the only tool we have now to salvage all this body of content, but it is limited: you need to have a 'prompt' (using modern terminology :-).
It is closer to a book index than a table of contents (to use older information technology tools) but one where the whole index is not accessible.
Forum software like Discourse also reliably brings them up in an effort to avoid deduplication of discussion.
The best discussions are also springboards for articles, books, and sometimes whole companies.