Hmm, perhaps I should add tags to hackerstream.com. I think you can solve this problem with UI. That's basically what subreddits are. In the backend reddit has just one pool of stories; subreddits allow us (kinda) to configure views into that pool.
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Tangent: HackerStream creation myth
With HN I found that I tended to read a story's comments once and never return[1], so the odds of seeing a specific interesting comment relied mostly on whether it was posted before or after I encountered the thread. Now with hackerstream the odds rely on just whether I am reading when it was posted. A real-time UI may seem noisier, but if you care about comments it's just as noisy. And switching between traditional and real-time views is strictly better than either alone.
Anyway, it's a testbed for exploring a less noisy experience.
[1] Except when notified of responses to my comments - thanks notifo!
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Hmm, perhaps I should add tags to hackerstream.com. I think you can solve this problem with UI. That's basically what subreddits are. In the backend reddit has just one pool of stories; subreddits allow us (kinda) to configure views into that pool.
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Tangent: HackerStream creation myth
With HN I found that I tended to read a story's comments once and never return[1], so the odds of seeing a specific interesting comment relied mostly on whether it was posted before or after I encountered the thread. Now with hackerstream the odds rely on just whether I am reading when it was posted. A real-time UI may seem noisier, but if you care about comments it's just as noisy. And switching between traditional and real-time views is strictly better than either alone.
Anyway, it's a testbed for exploring a less noisy experience.
[1] Except when notified of responses to my comments - thanks notifo!