Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
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#3> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot.
Interesting that even at the time he was completely wrong.
He also seems to have had the weird notion that HN was rotating front page posts every five minutes so he would need to see the 10 best links every day.
But I don’t recall that ever being the case, and it certainly is much less so these days.
The only thing that has changed is that yes, many places (including HN itself) now aggregate popular stories into various formats but fundamentally, HN is exactly the same as it ever was.
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Can you provide some examples of what the aforementioned "incel culture" looks like?
Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
#6> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot. Interes…
I thought that was a odd comment too. I think it is just fine. Maybe people with that concern can join ##hntop on liberachat to get a better feed.
Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
#7> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot. Interes…
I thought that was a odd comment too. I think it is just fine. Maybe people with that concern can join ##hntop on liberachat to get a better feed.
We kind of already have a "Top HN stories" list, and it's the hidden /active URL[1] which sorts by number of comments [made within N hours?]. Not everyone agrees with this. dang himself doesn't, and has said he thinks /active tends to end up with the threads that devolved into flamewars or got otherwise "too overheated." Fine, that's probably also true, but what News actually matters? Some package I've never heard of being ported to Rust? or some controversial event that broadly impacts the tech industry or computing, which yes happened to get a lot of "spirited" discussion?
The main page tends to get some cool, oddball articles that you wouldn't otherwise see, but also gets clogged with very, very niche stuff that you're statistically unlikely to care about. Also, articles rise and fall from the main page too fast IMO, especially the ones that get overheated.
If you visit HN once a day, and want to see the 10 articles that probably affect you in some way, you can't beat /active. Just put on your fireproof suit before visiting the comments.
Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
#8> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot. Interes…
> Interesting that even at the time he was completely wrong.
No, I agree with Malda in general that people don't scale. A population larger that Dunbar's Number[1] acquires too much management scaffolding to retain Edenic charm.
Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
#9> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot. Interes…
I don't consume HN via RSS, so I am just speculating, but perhaps the RSS feed has a lot of turnover. HN on the web is nice because links stay on the front page for a while, but a chronological delivery such as RSS might be messier.
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Can you provide some examples of what the aforementioned "incel culture" looks like?
I've no idea what the intent here is but I've noticed the term having moved from its original use of describing a sad subculture of poorly-socialized and sometimes disturbing young men to a more general lazy male-shaming term, often used to intimidate traditional masculine voices in a similar way "slut" is used to shut down women who don't apologise for being women.