It's really time for hn to acknowledge that stories have multiple links, perspectives, and chronological events and allow groupings. Take techmeme for example
https://www.techmeme.com/191010/p17#a191010p17To the left of the story, click the down arrow, thats every repost or perspective of the original story. Then the indented stories are followups.
Circa also designed itself around this, having a story and when you clicked it, THEN you would see the overall structure of the stories development timeline.
It wouldnt even have to be a chance to the existing hn site, somuch as an additional view that allows stories and comments to be stitched together and intermixed.
More on the topic of this post, I love the wired headline, how it reads "lightening strikes twice" and then the sentence continues, modifying twice into "twice as."
To the left of the story, click the down arrow, thats every repost or perspective of the original story. Then the indented stories are followups.
Circa also designed itself around this, having a story and when you clicked it, THEN you would see the overall structure of the stories development timeline.
It wouldnt even have to be a chance to the existing hn site, somuch as an additional view that allows stories and comments to be stitched together and intermixed.
More on the topic of this post, I love the wired headline, how it reads "lightening strikes twice" and then the sentence continues, modifying twice into "twice as."