Yes, dang is exceptional at what he does. Thank you dang for giving us a place to enjoy civil discourse.
Tell HN: Thank You Dang
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#242Thank-you Dang!
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#243Thank you, Dang!
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#244I thoroughly enjoy shitposting and consider it a form of entertainment, youtube comments being one of my favorite.
I’m incredibly thankful for HN but not everything needs to be great.
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#245Earlier 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.…
The only feature I'd like is to be able to collapse threads. When there's lots of comments it can sometimes be almost impossible to work out what comment someone is replying to.
Collapsible threads have been a feature for a while now. Click the "[-]" or "[+]" beside the comment to close or open.
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#246Earlier 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
I would be interested to know how many active users HN has, maybe it's because I'm in the bubble but I certainly feel like most people I meet who are "online" already know about it. I have certainly noticed "ebbs" of an Eternal September vibe here too, but they quickly dispel and the types of comments that come from it get downvoted anyway, so it's not as noticeable. Regardless, I am so grateful to have a place of me…
Around 5M monthly users depending on how you count them.
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#247I'm pretty new to HN and didn't realize all of it was moderated by one person(s?). That's a gargantuan job, thanks so much, Dang! Does Dang ever write about what it's like to moderate HN, and what tools s/he/they have at their disposal? Also, is Dang almost like a Satoshi or is it a real person??
I'm not the only moderator, just the only one (now that Scott is gone) who posts publicly. The others do a great job!
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#248Thank you, Dang! I didn't know about you until I read this thread. Is it really just _one_ moderator on HN? I imagine it's more than a full-time job to manage that...
I'm not the only one, just the only one who posts publicly.
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#249Thank you dang! (considering being critical gets you banned, this is the only comment you can make in this thread)
There are plenty of ways to be critical on HN and people do it all the time. The best way to be critical is to supply missing information, explain how to do something more effectively or see it more accurately—then we all learn something. The main thing we don't want is people putting each other down or being gratuitously mean.
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#250where is he? why is he not posting here? is dang even real? maybe dang is just the acronym for the AI system of a new startup being incubated at YC
For some reason I didn't see this thread until someone randomly mentioned it to me a few minutes ago. What a nice surprise! Thank you all.