There was only ~bitcoin, ~nostr, ~tech and ~meta before. The site started with no territory at all and it was implicitly only about ~bitcoin. With more stackers and nostr becoming a thing a year ago / early this year, we added ~nostr. ~tech and ~meta followed at some point. 

[Since 2 weeks](https://stacker.news/items/339533), stackers can create territories themselves now. 

I feel like terrotories have fractured SN's flow, but...

elysia

I recently just started so I only know the dividend groups.

What was SN like before and why is this an important change? 

Was the website just a random collection of articles and thoughts in one pile and then the most popular ones came to the trending?

