Ask HN: Where do you discuss old articles?

When I'm reading articles I often check with HN for reactions and discussion. This works best for recent articles. Old articles (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874499) don't allow commenting anymore. Where do you discuss those?

reasonnw 11y

As new articles get on average very few comments don't expect people discussing old comments. Perhaps you can reformulate the content in a new setting and gain attention. With 10 million post in HN is no wonder millions are sleeping for ever.

steilpassOP11y

Basically I just want to comment on a good article that came to my attention. If this triggers further discussion fine. If not not problem. I don't want to artificially reformulate anything.

I am wandering if someone else has this need as well. And what they did in this case.

brudgers 11y

If you want to say something about an article, writing a blog post is a way to spark further discussion. If it's interesting, it will spark a discussion on sites like Reddit, etc.

Tomte 11y

Resubmit.

gus_massa 11y

Yes, but read the FAQ:

Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

Please don't delete and repost the same story, though. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges.

Also, the question is: Is it interesting to discuss it again? Has something important changed? Is the article so interesting?

When I find a repost with a good discussion, I sometimes put a link to the old discussion with a snippet of the most interesting comments. Sometimes the comments debunk or clarify an important point of the article.

steilpassOP11y

As the example above (https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/microservices-and-the-...) this doesn't change anything. I still can't comment.

Tomte 11y

Where is the resubmitted story?

If HN just redirected you to the old story, append ?resubmit=hn or something similar to the URL.

Obviously, you should only do this if the original story is old, maybe a year or more.

steilpassOP11y

append ?resubmit=hn or something

Ok I thought HN was smart enough to re-open comments or something for old stories.

Personally I don't like this workaround. Because we now have several threads for the same article. And tools like Hacker News Sidebar [0] don't work anymore.

But granted for my original question this is probably the way to go.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sideba...

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