[HN Gopher] Lifehacks Stacks Exchange
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Lifehacks Stacks Exchange
Author : kamaraju
Score : 64 points
Date : 2021-10-09 15:50 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| junon wrote:
| Yuck. This would have never gotten past Area 51 5 years ago. SE
| is slowly killing itself.
| donkarma wrote:
| Some of the questions are from 2015?
| [deleted]
| 0des wrote:
| Are you asking a question?
| wolfgang42 wrote:
| It got past Area 51 _six_ years ago:
| https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/64409/lifehacks
| fabian2k wrote:
| It got past A51, and quite a few people disagreed with that. I
| don't think it meets the bar for an SE site, but SE is somewhat
| hesitant to kill sites today. That is a good thing in most
| cases, but this particular site is just not a good idea and
| inherently leads to bad content.
| nerdponx wrote:
| I don't understand all these highly specific micro-sites that
| popped up on Stackechange.
|
| Part of what makes Stackoverflow good is that it covers
| _multiple_ subject areas, attracting many eyeballs from many
| different areas, and thereby having a huge amount of momentum
| from network effects and "social gravity".
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| Meanwhile all these other little sites are way too specific and
| have accordingly very small user bases. For example, there was no
| need to have separate sites for Stats, Data Science, Open Data,
| and AI. Nor does it make sense to have Software Recommendations
| be separate from Superuser. It just hurts the smaller communities
| IMO by driving fragmentation, and (horror of horrors) leads to
| duplicated questions across multiple sites. So much for being a
| high-quality archive of knowledge! More like a feudal kingdom of
| squabbling lords.
|
| Maybe I'm just a misinformed outsider and there are good reasons
| for this pattern. But as a general user and former frequent-
| answer-er, I don't get it.
| jeherr wrote:
| > How to deal when the solid waste are stick on the toilet
| surface?
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| Truly a place to learn the best secrets to make your life better.
| LegitShady wrote:
| >Any way I can get vomit out of my pants while at work?
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| I can tell this is going to be an amazing source of knowledge
| for people who are interested in great things.
| jwdunne wrote:
| "You get a toothbrush and tie it to the end of a garden cane"
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| meanwhile, the rest of the world uses a, you know, toilet brush
| fredley wrote:
| Surely being a life hack is a property of a solution, not of a
| question? What on earth questions are they inviting here?
| NeoTar wrote:
| I agree the term life-hacks has lost all meaning.
|
| For me what destroyed it was a video about home-decorating 'life-
| hacks', and one was basically 'have a laundry chute' - great if
| you have one, but basically pointless otherwise as its almost
| impossible to retrofit to a house (or at least a standard UK
| home).
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| It was at that point I realised that to many people 'life hacks'
| are just 'things which are cool/I like' and not, as I understood,
| optimising your life (whatever that means).
| curiousfab wrote:
| Some true gems right there ;-)
|
| https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/25085/any-way-...
| dotancohen wrote:
| It gets better (or worse).
|
| https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/4280/how-to-cl...
| fouc wrote:
| I noticed most of the questions are household related tricks. I
| thought lifehacks was more about being productive at work,
| optimizing sleep, etc
| 0des wrote:
| I have a firm belief that Lifehacker created a trend that
| undermined the use of the term, resulting in a tragedy of the
| commons.
| Jeff_Brown wrote:
| If you like this you might also like the Reddit forum Explain
| Like I'm 5: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive
| jerrygoyal wrote:
| and r/howto
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