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Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by stanmancan »

I would hate for HN to become a "General News" site. There are plenty of places I can go to get "General News". I come to HN because it provides the exact type of articles I believe we all come here to find. This is the only site I check multiple times per day, and it's because I know there's no messing around. Quite often I'll read, or at least skim, 80% of the articles on the front page.

Let Digg do it's own thing. HN is a niche news site for a niche group.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by fluorescentLAMP »

ConceptDog wrote: post #26

Supplemented with Reddit. Search engines are great for answers. Reddit and HN are great for questions I didn't think of.

Yeah, I feel that proggit has really gone downhill. I still enjoy a handful of other specific /r/ s thou - like soccer and boston.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by omaranto »

fluorescentLAMP wrote: post #63
ConceptDog wrote: post #26

Supplemented with Reddit. Search engines are great for answers. Reddit and HN are great for questions I didn't think of.

Yeah, I feel that proggit has really gone downhill. I still enjoy a handful of other specific /r/ s thou - like soccer and boston.

I can't believe I never thought to check if there was a Boston subreddit, thanks for mentioning it!

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by novocaine »

I read the Guardian as a primary news source as I have a great interest in world politics and it's the best source - their wikileaks coverage was pretty exceptional. nyt is ok but I find the layout too busy and there's rather a lot of obscure American politics that I don't care about.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by shortlived »

fluorescentLAMP wrote: post #63
ConceptDog wrote: post #26

Supplemented with Reddit. Search engines are great for answers. Reddit and HN are great for questions I didn't think of.

Yeah, I feel that proggit has really gone downhill. I still enjoy a handful of other specific /r/ s thou - like soccer and boston.

try /r/coding or search out more specific subreddits.
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