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by el_cid 2947 days ago
You are right... HN is starting to have a visibility issue. But I can't see how it can be fixed. All successful online communities have to deal with this aspect eventually. They all become too popular at one point and it's hard to maintain the quality.

I can't see how it can be fixed.
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vinayms 2947 days ago
Its actually quite simple - push the thread with the latest comments to the top. But in order to stop such threads from hogging the front page, there can be another tab for 'active' threads that people can visit to check out latest discussions. The current front page remains unchanged, with whatever algorithm that's used to order the threads.
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dchuk 2946 days ago
This is a good idea, and I'd be very interested to see if they ever added that, as it would essentially solve the long running conversation problem that exists on HN now.
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