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Please don't make Hacker News more like Reddit. Please don't make Hacker News more like Reddit. Please don't make Hacker News more like Reddit.
Wouldn't the threat of change be going in the opposite direction?
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Wouldn't the threat of change be going in the opposite direction?
That being said please make Reddit more like HN. I deleted my Reddit account years ago. In the cases where it wasn’t a doomed echo chamber vortex it was stupid framework trend of the moment, which isn’t interesting when your primary concerns are technology and programming.
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Well, that would only make Reddit better, but Redit is much much bigger. The bigger risk is that Alexis sees what Reddit is doing (maybe gets a peak at their balance sheet) and thinks that what we have here is the next big social media unicorn he can overhaul and then flog off to the highest bidder.
What?? I enjoy reading Hacker News and commenting, but Reddit is a lot more open and puts a higher value on free speech and contrarian ideologies (some of it is borderline horrible, but that's OK, that's the price of free speech). I'd be more worried about him bringing HN policies to Reddit. Trying to get superficially good behavior from users by punishing contrarian views isn't going to work in this case. But it wor…
I disagree in the strongest possible terms. So much of Reddit is a populist echo chamber, which is the opposite of free speech.
I am sorry for him. I know as a fact that he’s brilliant and fully deserves the position, but given the circumstances (Ohanian resigning and calling for someone black to replace him) he will always have to live with people having the reasonable doubt that he didn’t arrive there for merit alone.
Honestly, even you saying this is BS.
I really hope this doesn't mean Hacker News will start getting inspiration from Reddit, or that Alexis Ohanian doesn't get dillusions of grandeur and wants to turn this into what Reddit is (a profiteering social media company fuelled by ads and astroturfing). We really don't want that. What we have here is something quite special, and as far as I can see, unique on modern internet. It is a tiny slice of what the "old…
I mean, HN isn’t really relevant as an asset to ycombinator besides a advertising asset, right? It has a couple million monthly users, maybe 1 new feature a year, and runs on a single core. It’s more of a demonstration of Arc than anything, right?
A dumb but serious question: what powers does a board of directors have? In terms of day to day operations, engineering, product, marketing and so on?