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Ask HN: Do you think that Hacker News has gotten much worse lately?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you think that Hacker News has gotten much worse lately?

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Post by lovelearning »

For reasons related to work, I went from daily visits here to occasional visits (about once a week) over the past 2 years. Meanwhile, I'd become more active on some Reddit subs and noticed some patterns in the discourse and vocabulary there.

Now when I visit HN, I notice some of the same patterns here. I feel there are many more snarky politically polarizing comments nowadays and see heavier downvoting of reasonable if unpopular tech opinions. I don't see any difference in links or questions or Show HN though. It's just the discussions that, I felt, have degraded.

Re: Ask HN: Do you think that Hacker News has gotten much worse lately?

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Post by shanecleveland »

thisistheend123 wrote: post #9

I have been actively reading HN for almost 10 years with different accounts. Trust me, this question has been asked umpteen number of times, and the answer has always been no. There is always a steady flow of good, interesting technical posts that keep you hooked. Not to mention ASK HN and recently added Show HN and PAST. And they always keep adding new features to the site. So, no it still remains the one of the go…

Why use different accounts?

I notice OP has only been active for 50 days, so I assume they have either read for many years but not signed up until then or they use multiple accounts. Why?

I understand there a non-nefarious reasons for this, but just curious behind the reasoning.

Re: Ask HN: Do you think that Hacker News has gotten much worse lately?

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Post by karmakaze »

the_only_law wrote: post #8

Depends on what you mean by lately, past few years? Yeah a bit. Past few months? Not particularly. Don't particularly like it here but it remains one the only good places to find and discuss good tech / hacker type stuff (r/programming seems to have much of the same stuff as HN a week later and with much lazier discussion)

I think coronavirus may have reduced the seasonal swell of new user posts/comments/questions--better when distributed throughout the year.
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