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Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by john4532452 »

erikbye wrote: post #168
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.

> 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.

Please consider answering this. Are those interesting communities on IRC or the web based non searchable community sites like discord. ?

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by klunger »

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.

Many good reasons are already mentioned, but I also think a big one is because dang is here full time. This is job and he does it well.

Almost all other internet communities have mods that just do it on a volunteer basis. If those communities are big enough to be vibrant, that also means that a couple volunteer mods can't cut it. Luckily YC has the budget for keeping dang around. I would bet this place would be like most other poorly moderated communities without him.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by spurgu »

hanche wrote: post #146
malikNF wrote: post #121

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…

Normally, pointing out misspellings is bad form, but I can't not point out that your spelling of “popping” was rather misfortunate. I think I know how it happened, since it happens to me all the time: The brain does a lot of its work in parallel, and in mine, at least, there seems to be a separate part of the brain responsible for doubling letters as I type. And this being somewhat asynchronous, it occasionally doubl…

> The brain does a lot of its work in parallel

What happens to me oftentimes, when not focusing on what I'm typing, is that I misspell words like "theme" as "team". I think it's because my muscle memory sloppily translates what my brain is hearing since it's not focusing on the context, and those two words sound similar. This is also how "your" sometimes gets mixed with "you're", even though I most definitely know the difference and spot the mistake immediately when proofreading.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by quickthrower2 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #128
Magodo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Oops: s/x//

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by spurgu »

This is definitely the best community out there that I know of and it's largely thanks to your efforts (along with the knowledgeable posters) - thank you dang!

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by skinkestek »

It says something that this forum has researchers, astrophysicists, farmers, ux-ers, entrepreneurs, programmers, democrats, republicans, Russians, Americans etc from 13 to 80(?) discussing more or less peacefully.

Thanks for moderating and thanks for actually answering my mails dang!

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by spidersouris »

RealStickman_ wrote: post #133
Debug_Overload wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.…

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