Would a temporary coronavirus section be useful here?

Question

I&rsquo;d like to separate our usual news and the virus news. Just have a new link on the top besides &ldquo;new&rdquo;. Do you also think it&rsquo;s a good idea?

dang · Accepted Answer

HN generally eschews tagging and categorization, because it's intrinsic to the site that it be non-siloed: everybody sees the same site. This has deep consequences for community: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..../ask and /show in the top bar are partial exceptions, but those are not exactly topic categories.

rolph · Answer

i think very much. There is a process for merging threads, if they are similar enough but "coronavirus" is too general of a tag for merging on that basis.i wonder how much extra work would be required to branch topics off into "hyperthreads" or something like that.

helph67 · Answer

You could suggest it as a new category for this site? https://bestofshowhn.com/

yohann305 · Answer

absolutely. great idea

Would a temporary coronavirus section be useful here?

I’d like to separate our usual news and the virus news. Just have a new link on the top besides “new”. Do you also think it’s a good idea?

i think very much. There is a process for merging threads, if they are similar enough but "coronavirus" is too general of a tag for merging on that basis.
i wonder how much extra work would be required to branch topics off into "hyperthreads" or something like that.

You could suggest it as a new category for this site? https://bestofshowhn.com/

absolutely. great idea