HN is getting too big

<a href="http://searchyc.com" rel="nofollow">http://searchyc.com</a> is the solution to your particular problem, not sharded communities.<p>It's unfortunate that pg petulantly refuses to acknowledge its existence. Even talking about in person, he'd only engage with me on the subject when I referred to the useless HNSearch Firefox extension that's linked in the footer because it's from WebMynd (YC W08).<p>Confounding things is the fact that HNSearch actually redirects to searchyc SERPs on some user actions!

eli_s, not an answer, but if you upvote that article, it's in your <i>saved stories</i>: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=eli_s" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=eli_s</a><p>(from your homepage, 3rd link from the bottom)

That's already happening, since a few weeks HN now has an 'ask' section, which is effectively a first split.

I too have noticed a large increase in volume recently, but I'm not sure that's the problem. Rather, I'd say the site needs less churn - top articles should stay on the front page for at least a day. That just means a different ranking, maybe something like log(votes)*weight, where weight decays over time but gets bumped at each upvote.<p>If that's not enough churn for some people, I'd prefer a filter that lets them temporarily hide some stories. And ten there's /newest<p>I know there's also the /best section, but it's not linked to and I don't know how it's ranked.<p>A reddit-like url filter would help a little in catching reposts, but I'm not sure this is a big problem yet.

I don't use the 'ask' section link, but regularly click on them from the 'new' or main view.<p>What categories would you suggest? Business, technology, environment, programming, apple, facebook? Ok, probably not apple and facebook though those do get an inordinate amount of links.<p>Personally I wouldn't use them, and my concern would be that people who come only to read articles tagged in that column wouldn't cross-polinate their expertise into cross-over areas.<p>Just a thought.

The problem with sub HNs is for those of us who use feed readers to read HN and other news sites. I REALLY don't want to have to add ten extra feeds to my feed list, as the idea of sub-HNs implies. I, for one, am fond of the way this is currently set up, it works well with how I have my feed reader set up, and my desire for knowledge at all hours.

Noticed this, too.<p>The way I keep up with it is using google reader to star (mark) stories over the day and reading them when i get the chance.<p>I'm not sure sub HNs are the answer just now since I'd need to subscribe to pretty much all of them to not miss good content.

I agree. My RSS feed has 100s of articles every day. And I can't keep up :(

I miss Nick B.

That's what she said.