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Is HN the new Techcrunch?

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Re: Is HN the new Techcrunch?

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Post by jefftala »

riffraff wrote: post #10
jefftala wrote: post #4

I'm not convinced. Isn't HN the new Digg, and Digg was the new Slashdot? These 3 sites (HN, Digg, Slashdot) are all user submitted stories. Techcrunch is just one source of many for those stories.

nop, reddit is the new digg, HN is the new reddit

True enough!

Re: Is HN the new Techcrunch?

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Post by Vmabuza »

grumpybaglady wrote: post #7

Apples and oranges in my opinion. Techcrunch is not a community driven site but rather a contributer driven site.

I think Techcrunch is community driven because you read the comments more then the actual posts themselves.How many times have you ''Skip To comments'' on TC

Re: Is HN the new Techcrunch?

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Post by dglassan »

I would say no. For a while now Apple/Twitter/Facebook have dominated TC. TechCrunch has shifted from startup/funding focused stories to more mainstream tech news.

HN will always have an awesome community that TechCrunch never had. HN is a place to exchange ideas and read about what's going on in the startup industry.

I sure hope this place doesn't become the new TechCrunch...

Re: Is HN the new Techcrunch?

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Post by duopixel »

Yes, unfortunately.

HN lately is much more about entrepreneurship and startup PR than it is about crafting software.

Not that it's bad, it's just that the ratio has gone out of hand. I question wether "Hacker News" is an appropriate name for this place anymore.

Re: Is HN the new Techcrunch?

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Post by ernestipark »

jefftala wrote: post #9
ernestipark wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digg is nothing like HN. Granted, they are popular user submitted story sites with comments, but it's about the community. I visited Digg for a few weeks then stopped going because there was frankly lots of crap and trolls on the site. That is not to say that HN doesn't have some bad cookies here and there, but I got fed up with Digg when I saw lots of ignorant comments that were just meant to be hateful rather than…

True, but going back a few years, Digg had a very similar community to HN. As it branched out into other topics it really lost focus and is the site we never visit today :) Many HNers are former Diggers. It's just been a few years.

Ah well I guess I saw the site post focus loss.
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