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There's a great extension called Old Reddit Redirect [0] that'll always take you to old Reddit, highly recommend it. Reddit's new direction in recent years has been really painful. There's so many great niche communities there that practically don't exist elsewhere on the Internet. Unfortunately, if/when they get rid of old Reddit and the API for third party apps, I'll probably drop Reddit entirely. [0] Firefox: http…
It's such a catch-22. You want more people to want to use your favorite niche forum. But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Reddit has a few great subreddits. They aren't unpopular, but I also prefer not to market them. Let the people who really want it search for it, I guess.
Really? I'm not sure I agree with this. I feel like if the topic itself is niche or requires some baseline level of competency to contribute, then it actually resists this "crapification" because your average troll just doesn't have enough content/info to work with. It's the broader, general interest topics, usually that have some intersection with politics, that always go to shit.
I mean, I see this on HN itself, where the broad-topic posts often end up in a shit show (though thanks to dang the shit-level is kept under control), while the posts about specific technologies are usually pretty on point.
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A topic silo encourages people to behave in ways that might help them reach the top of the silo. Getting to the top is expedited by pushing other people down. Even worse, it is expedited by driving out expertise.
The dynamics of HN prevent that. Topics so broad that being way outside your domain is the normal state of encountering an HN topic for everyone. Nobody has a well informed opinion about most of the items on the front page...most people don't even care about more than a handful of them even when there is a single story dominating it.
Secondly, there is no way to get to the top of HN. While karma adds up, HN is a constellation not a heap. The center is YC itself with rings of founders in the closest orbit around its mass.
Karma itself only puts you in the Oort cloud.
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Reddit main page is just comedy and politics. You'll want to check out the niches like its Rust community. Other language-based communities as of late have favored chat-type environments over forums.
It's such a catch-22. You want more people to want to use your favorite niche forum. But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Reddit has a few great subreddits. They aren't unpopular, but I also prefer not to market them. Let the people who really want it search for it, I guess.
> But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Really? I'm not sure I agree with this. I feel like if the topic itself is niche or requires some baseline level of competency to contribute, then it actually resists this "crapification" because your average troll just doesn't have enough content/info to work with. It's the broader, general interest topics, usually that have some intersection with politi…
It's such a catch-22. You want more people to want to use your favorite niche forum. But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Reddit has a few great subreddits. They aren't unpopular, but I also prefer not to market them. Let the people who really want it search for it, I guess.
> But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Really? I'm not sure I agree with this. I feel like if the topic itself is niche or requires some baseline level of competency to contribute, then it actually resists this "crapification" because your average troll just doesn't have enough content/info to work with. It's the broader, general interest topics, usually that have some intersection with politi…
Would love some recommendations on anything architecture/design related that had HN’s format (unless the subreddits for those topics are as good as it gets)
They attract amateurs.
Amateurs generally repel expertise.
And experts are already busy doing the thing their expert at...serving clients.
To put it another way, working architects and designers don't have much if any upside from arguing with do-it-yourselfers, people who have only heard of FLW, and the general public which think of commercial construction as just like their house only more so.