Ask HN Do we need a forum?

7 pointsby geetaristavor 15 Jahren9 comments

I'm seeing more and more Ask HN, Tell HN, etc. posted here lately. I'm wondering if we need to have a forum.ycombinator.com or something similar to distinguish news from talk.

We have "ask" and "jobs" navigation at the top, but the main stream still includes everything.

10 comments

hasenjvor 15 Jahren

Well, we have the "ask" tab at the top. I don't see a need for a separate domain or anything like that.

geetaristavor 15 Jahren

We do have the "ask" tab, but everything is included in the main stream of news. I would just prefer to keep things separated and organized a little better.

I'm not sure what the solution would be exactly; the subdomain/forum idea is just a suggestion. If it was a separate forum, it could house all talk-related items and categorize them as "Questions", "Job Postings", etc.

I just wanted to see if anyone else had the same preference and if there are any better suggestions.

dchukvor 15 Jahren

I setup SaaSaholics.com a month or so ago, got it seeded with a bunch of content, but never got around to getting it posted here to get some users. Everything is ready to go, I really strongly believe a SaaS forum could be a useful thing for us to all collaborate at.

I'll host the site for free with no ads for the indefinite future in the interest of getting it going. I think a submission here would potentially get it rolling, but it ultimately is in that awkward "who talks first" mode...

huhtenbergvor 15 Jahren

"Ask HN" needs topic categories and an ability to filter by a category, i.e.

  http://news.ycombinator.com/ask/programming
  http://news.ycombinator.com/ask/launched
  http://news.ycombinator.com/ask/meta
  ...

Throw in an index page for categories that shows new/total counters for each one, and I know I will use it a lot.

pavel_lishinvor 15 Jahren

Who would be in charge of categorizing posts?

huhtenbergvor 15 Jahren

Submitters. One category per post.

akavivor 15 Jahren

And so continues HN's recapitulation of Reddit

hbzhangvor 15 Jahren

I am pretty new to this community. I feel the functions of the YCnews are very limited. I know keeping simple is always good, which is a principle of many hackers. However, a little bit improved functions could make YCnews much better!

petervandijckvor 15 Jahren

Underwhelmed with the functionality, newbies have been saying that for years :)

ddemchukvor 15 Jahren