Hacker News Google+ Community

Re:Hacker News Google+ Community by tankbot on Friday December 07, 2012 @03:07PM (#4888977)

It seems natural that these sorts of things would appear, especially around a community like HN. But what's the point? HN is already a community because of HN.

Isn't this like the programmer who wanted to create a standard to unify the n variations only to end up with n+1 variations?

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Re:Hacker News Google+ Community by robryan on Friday December 07, 2012 @06:47PM (#4889874)

There has been many attempts to produce something to compliment the hacker news site and allow for more unstructured chat. Not sure anything has really stuck though.

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Re:Hacker News Google+ Community by polyfractal on Friday December 07, 2012 @03:28PM (#4889090)

I can see it being useful for things that HN is not well suited for such as idle conversation, better visibility for random questions, etc.

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Re:Hacker News Google+ Community by 31reasons on Friday December 07, 2012 @03:28PM (#4889095)

One advantage is that Goolge+ is a social network. Hacker News is not.

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