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Possibly people wishing the internet was back like it was in 2022, :D
See also, 1. Eternal September : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September 2. (and what I like to call) Eternal October : https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-sel...
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Dang is a key factor in the success of HN, no doubt about it. Another part is the consistent website design, it helps in focusing on the essentials, i.e. the articles and the discussions. And last but not least i try to be the best I can when posting here.
The consistent design is what's holding HN back. The worst is when the top comment has so many replies, the first page is only reactions on that comment. Someone actually needs to sticky a comment saying there's a next page button with links to it. Oh and the links are unclickable on mobile.
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There's definitely a contingent in the HN comments with a bit of an antisocial streak. I wish people approached comments they take issue with with more of a pedagogical approach, starting with interpretive charity and trying to help the commenter see things in another way. I'd actually use the term "welcoming" in this context.
People get paid to promote shit on HN. It's a job you can get. There's no hope for the old internet these days. You can welcome the spammers, if you want, but all you're gonna get is spam.
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Was also here on the 1st day, the same day I decided to start-up 15 years ago! Took me 7 years to create an account though. Wish I had done it sooner! Especially ALWAYS reading the comments BEFORE the actual articles! Thanks!
how did people hear about it back then?
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Took me a while to find out where the cool kids had gone from Slashdot back then ;) Speaking of which, let's keep HN a liberal and welcoming place also for corps/startups (but not astroturfers) where key developers, experts from non-IT, CEOs/CTOs can have a voice as that's what makes HN unique IMO.
HN came around at the right time, and really had a better community with a good signal:noise ratio. The moderating system (flagging, up/down votes, and of course @dang and his predecessors) really helped.
One thing that's really impressed me as time has gone on is how far the expertise has expanded. I have bookmarked a bunch of users who consistently add solid insights, often with deep domain expertise sometimes from very unexpected quarters (diesel technicians, biologists, farmers, artists, musicians ...). They include @Animats @jdietrich @bkohlmann @nonbel @tptacek @zackmorris @jurassic @tamilama @patio11 @ries @nimbius @breakingcups @noduerme @300bps and many more.
People (and myself) can rag on this website a lot but it really has changed the trajectory of my professional life. It’s where I: * first learned about CRDTs, kickstarting an interest in distributed systems * first learned about TLA+, kickstarting an interest in formal specification * first saw the book Quantum Computing Since Democritus recommended (in a post about Professor Sussman’s reading list), kickstarting an…
It feels like HN still upholds the early promise of the internet (along with Wikipedia and very small number of other websites). But what will the next 15 year bring about?
What's the "early promise of the internet" to you? The Venture Capitalists and startuppers that made HN like the internet to be Free enough that new businesses and services can thrive, and Open Source for the accessible and reusable building blocks for their projects, but clearly like commercialization and being the middleman, like in the good old offline days. The headache of moderating their platforms feels more ur…
The actual start was some time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08
Here are all the days with posts from 2006-10-09 through 2007-02-19:
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-10
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-11
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-12
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-13
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-14
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-15
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-17
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-22
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-12-14
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19
What happened in between? Was HN tweaked and then relaunched?
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Ah, I miss the old Slashdot. It took me a while to become a regular here as well. Slashdot got a bit too serious/corporate at some point and the founders eventually got out and at some point I just moved on as well. The last time I left a comment there was twelve years ago or so. I actually just logged in just to see if my account is still there. Karma still excellent :-). I like HN, but it could do with people being…
I like HN, but it could do with people being maybe a bit less uptight and a bit lighter sometimes. The comment section seems to have quite a few pedantic know it-alls taking themselves way to seriously; just like slashdot used to. That's a fair point, but at least the one thing we don't have here (for the most part) in comparison to /. is the steady stream of comments of the - GNAA - In Soviet Korea Only Old People S…
HN was immediately the opposite: a place you could read the comments before the article.