[jere]

On the same day, we get a filter that is by default HN without Bitcoin and another site that is HN only about Bitcoin.

It's like we're approaching some sort of binary tree data structure where the leaves are HN clones with their own indiosyncratic topic configurations.

[derefr]

The two are, of course, motivated by the same plea: for HN to be only for discourse about technology/hacking/building/entrepreneur-ing itself, and to leave the discussion of the politics surrounding it to somewhere else.

I mean, we all want to discuss techpolitik sometimes... but generally not at the same time we're reading about new tech.

HN might be well-served doing something like MetaFilter's "blue/grey" split, but instead of just a content/meta division, a "hacks/sociopolitical-implications-of-hacks" division. HN is already a community, and it'd be nice if the account names and karma stayed synchronized.

[krapp]

The community has become more complex than the structure of Hacker News allows for.

[andrewljohnson]

I shall call it a subreddit.