I am out of almost all social networks. HN is the only one that I still visit for intellectual inspiration. Thank you Dang!
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#162Yes. Thank you Dang. The community, and more specifically 'comment SNR' in Hacker News is really fantastically high, and you deserve a lot of praise for that. I also very much like the fact that the website is basically html 1 and loads very quickly. I'm not interested in the business / startup scene at all, but the sheer breadth of expertise and community in all areas of life is very much something to celebrate.
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#163My first comment... Dang is awesome
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#164Thank you, dang!
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Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
HN discourages the sort of clever-yet-unsubstantial one-liner jokes that earn a lot of karma on Reddit. It reserves the space for thoughtful discussions. Getting rid of the memes simply doesn't fly in other online communities. I'd also put money on the average age of HN commenter being higher than that of other internet communities. I know of other rich and healthy online communities, but they are fairly niche.
A good majority of HNers may also be Redditors.
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Private group chats, unfortunately. It’s hard to have a public one stay high quality.
yeah that makes sense. any tips on how to go about find them?
Try paid membership forums. People tend to behave better, and have an interest in keeping the community in order, when they spend money.
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#168In 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.
> Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
Come on, the Internet is vast, of course there are many communities like this one. But most people in those communities, like myself, do not advertise them. We do not want them ruined. You find them either by chance, or by invitation.
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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!
Yes, there are _many_ private subreddits with high quality content.
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#170Your work's much appreciated, DanG, thanks.