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Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?

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Post by octane »

josefresco wrote: post #26
tokenadult wrote: post #2

New Mogul http://www.newmogul.com/ for business news. It uses the same ARC-based software as HN, so it's easy to learn the user interface.

I'm sorry but the top news stories on New Mogul when I checked represent the type of stories that I especially don't want to see on HN. For people who dig that sort of business 'news', it's a good link.

> I especially don't want to see on HN

I think they were thinking the same thing, which is why they started their own website and called it a new name and it's hosted on different servers and has a new URL.

Also, the people running it are different. And you need separate accounts. Hmm, looks like they even changed the theme and some graphics!

Wow, it's almost like they run a separate site that isn't HN and has things that doesn't belong on HN!

Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?

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Post by buckler »

allenbrunson wrote: post #22
icefox wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based upon the fact that hn uses the same system for comments as reddit (only up down voting) and we know how well that worked out there really is no question that once the number of users goes up hn will resemble reddit of today, but the owners wont care because they will have a ton of users and we wont care because we will be somewhere else.

concerns about hn quality going down have been here from day one. it has not degraded substantially in the over two years i've been here, and i don't think it will for awhile. reddit's goal was to get a lot of users. it's being run as a business. hn's goal is to foster high-quality links and conversation. pg doesn't care how many users the site has, and he's not trying to monetize it. it's not the karma and voting sy…

I also agree with this notion. Also notice the absence of spam here... In addition to human editing by the admins, active users on HN here really care about the quality on the site.

It's as if sites like Digg, Reddit, & Slashdot have set some sort of a precedent, and people now have a better sense of what to avoid, moderate, etc.

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