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Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by cmdrtaco »

karaterobot wrote: post #12

> I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O'Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what's happening around the universe. This part was confusing, because it seemed like he was immediate contradicting himself: decentralizing by moving to platforms? Twitter and Reddit centralized power…

I was probably thinking about about decentralizing curatorial control than I was the platform itself. I dunno, the article was paywalled :)

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by cmdrtaco »

jacquesm wrote: post #17
cmdrtaco wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi.

Hi as well! One day we should do a get together of the people that made the top 100 web sites work prior to 1998 or so. I'm sure there would be lots of interesting stories.

Has-beenternet

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Post by jedberg »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #22
jacquesm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi as well! One day we should do a get together of the people that made the top 100 web sites work prior to 1998 or so. I'm sure there would be lots of interesting stories.

Has-beenternet

I refuse to be called a has-been yet! :P

ps. Hi Rob.

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by monkeytrickster »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #15
jacquesm wrote: post #11

He's still a user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco

Hi.

Thanks for old slashdot, was one of my favorite sites and got me into linux and cool open technology back then. btw the thing you are looking for in the article (10 best stories from hackernews) has already been built (not by me), check out: https://brutalist.report/topic/tech?limit=10

(edited for typo)

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by jacquesm »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #22
jacquesm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi as well! One day we should do a get together of the people that made the top 100 web sites work prior to 1998 or so. I'm sure there would be lots of interesting stories.

Has-beenternet

Hehe, yes, definitely. The ratio of interesting content:junk would be nice to visualize. In the early days of the web I hardly ever ran into a website that wasn't interesting. /. (why not ./ by the way?) was a nice way to discover new stuff when that ratio first started to decrease.

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by nullindividual »

skilled wrote: post #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. Interes…

> Interesting that even at the time he was completely wrong.

Within the past few months, I've started to see more low effort comment posting, submissions way outside of what many thing HN on-topic to be, and I've flagged more submissions/comments in the past handful of days than I ever have.

HN is becoming something like a proto-popular reddit.

EDIT: Since the above sounds like doom-and-gloom for HN, I want to say it's great that more people can enjoy HN. I hope it stays (close) to it's original intent.

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