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by franciscop 3515 days ago
This has been asked/answered before, but basically it's all about context/relevance. I am adding more networks so you can keep things relevant. Made a blog post about your Raspberry Pi/Node.js server/Elixir? Cool, then HN might be a good fit and you can add the tag `hackernews="31415926535"`. Is it a cooking recipe? Then add that https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/ 's link to your post. Actually Reddit is great for this since they have many different topics, but I focused first on improving HN's version since that's the site I use most (it's still an alpha/dev version but wanted some feedback from HN).

Definitely harming the HN community is something that has been mentioned several times which I didn't consider because of what I mentioned above, so I will take that into account when I publish the final version. I don't want to change/harm the community at all, just so other people can read the awesome comments that happen here.
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whiddershins 3515 days ago
As I stated in my above comment, I believe that encouraging visitors from one site to come directly to a comment (rather than the entire thread) specifically removes the context.

And that could be a bad thing, no?

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franciscop 3514 days ago
That is a really good point. Even though before clicking the Reply button they can see that comment and its parents, I agree that it would be a better idea to go to that specific comment in the thread instead of to the reply screen that has no context. I thought there was no way of doing it, but each comment has its own id so I'll just link to the `#ID` so even more context is added when clicking on "reply". Thanks for the tip!
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Terretta 3515 days ago
"... the awesome comments that happen here."

Happen here. In context. In the community.

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