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Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by malikNF »

I was a lurker on HN for years before I made my first account here, and dang was a name that kept popping up all over HN. I thought you were an addicted HN user at first, but after a while I got curious and read your post history, and that's when I figured out who you were.

I genuinely have a hard time believing you are one person. HN being one of the most important tools that contributed to my growth as a developer and a business owner, dang I feel I personally owe you so much for contributing so much to HN. Thank you dang.

p.s you are like a modern day good guy ninja. Hiding in the shadows taking out the bad guys :D

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Fixed a spelling error.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by yread »

E-Reverance wrote: post #36
awak3ning wrote: post #23

In an insane world, Hacker News is one corner of the internet that I find to be "normal" and "sane". God Bless you Dang!

Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.

Not the same of course but I like the intelligent discussions over at metabunk.org sometimes.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by Debug_Overload »

Magodo wrote: post #70
E-Reverance wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.

There are no communities like this because of Eternal September like phenomena. If HN acquires a million readers tomorrow, it'll be unrecognizable very soon. Nicheness on its own creates valuable communities. Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled

> Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI

This was actually my only quibble with HN. I love the simplicity and the fact that HN doesn't suffer from the "obesity" that plagues modern websites, but I felt it could use some features.

For instance, the ability to filter it by time (it does have that filter already for days, months and so on, but not hours), or have an official app for the site could be awesome. Or a notification system. I already solved the first two of these issues by using 3rd party solutions (hckrnews.com and Materialistic) but supporting them officially would be great. I didn't find a solution for the 3rd issue, though; at least not one that I felt was useful.

But others don't feel the same way. When I googled around to see why these issues weren't addressed, the consensus seemed to be that there's no need for it for one reason or another. Oh, well. Other benefits of HN outweigh these minor issues, though. So overall, not that big of a deal for me.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

#128

Post by quickthrower2 »

Magodo wrote: post #70
E-Reverance wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.

There are no communities like this because of Eternal September like phenomena. If HN acquires a million readers tomorrow, it'll be unrecognizable very soon. Nicheness on its own creates valuable communities. Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled

Some subreddits are good though by the way and don’t have external Septembers. Also some discords. I’m a bit afraid to say which though!

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

#130

Post by nojvek »

ontouchstart wrote: post #72

I am out of almost all social networks. HN is the only one that I still visit for intellectual inspiration. Thank you Dang!

HN is my Facebook. I don’t miss Facebook. I don’t miss Twitter. The only two social networks I have is HN and Whatsapp (for family groups).

I hope dang has Ycombinator equity because he deffo deserves a part of the success.

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