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Ask HN: Where do you discuss old articles?

6 points by steilpass ↗ HN
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?

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Tomte
Resubmit.
gus_massa
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.

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

steilpass
> 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...

reasonnw
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.
steilpass
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
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.