Like I'd be happy to contribute financially to a HN elsewhere if the need arose.
We'd just have to work out the details, I think the underlying software HN runs on is open source, so it wouldnt be too hard to do as a community project.
Ask HN: Should we plan for a life after HN?
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#12As long as Y Combinator is doing fine, HN will probably be fine too.
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#13It would be very strange (and rather sad) for you to remain the same person exactly and HN to be exactly as it is now in perpetuity. Perhaps the next thing will be better? For me HN > /.
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#14I worry about this myself. I feel like HN is the last refuge of what the old Internet was supposed to be like. I'm not sure it can be replicated. The future of the Internet seems to me to be small private "hidden" communities and mega platforms filled with garbage. No room for a middle Maybe a paid platform?
> the last refuge of what the old Internet was supposed to be like.
What, how? HN is one of the most squeaky clean - corpo - heavily moderated sites with a extreme bubble centered around SV tech.
Its basically the exact opposite of the old internet.
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#15> Should we plan for this?
No. Most things don't end abruptly. There are signs it's ending. People will migrate to something else as they always do.
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#16I worry about this myself. I feel like HN is the last refuge of what the old Internet was supposed to be like. I'm not sure it can be replicated. The future of the Internet seems to me to be small private "hidden" communities and mega platforms filled with garbage. No room for a middle Maybe a paid platform?
As much as I like my Internet free as in beer, I do think that in order to transition from ad-supported content platforms, some form of micropayment or subscription model works best to support creators and bastions of intelligent discourse. I don't mind chipping in for content, (ie independent reporters on substack, local NPR station, Wikipedia), the value exchange is positive for me.
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#17Should we plan for a life after HN? There is no need to wait for such an event. In my opinion what makes this site unique is how it is run rather than the tech. One could make note(s) of how Daniel manages this site and try their hand at mimicking the patterns on existing sites. People could attempt to replicate something close to his methodology, guidelines and levels of engagement on their own self hosted Postmill,…
"People could attempt to replicate something close to his methodology, guidelines and levels of engagement"
I wonder how close are we to getting an AI to do this kind of work? Pretty far I would guess?
Re: Ask HN: Should we plan for a life after HN?
#18Should we plan for a life after HN? There is no need to wait for such an event. In my opinion what makes this site unique is how it is run rather than the tech. One could make note(s) of how Daniel manages this site and try their hand at mimicking the patterns on existing sites. People could attempt to replicate something close to his methodology, guidelines and levels of engagement on their own self hosted Postmill,…
Based on the commentariat’s enthusiasm for Section 230 reform then, the community wills its own destruction.
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#19> some sort of mirror platform with the same profiles, same data and as much of the algorithm as possible
No offense, but you’ve just distilled the blindspot behind a lot of social startup ideas. Good communities are not a product of technology or data.
Technology and data facilitate different cost and scaling opportunities, but are just the bones upon which a community might be built.
This community is good because of excellent human involvement through dang (and others at YC) and through the luck of having the right, responsible users around so far. There’s no recreating it.
Sometimes, you just have to enjoy things while they exist and then let go of them once they don’t.
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#20I worry about this myself. I feel like HN is the last refuge of what the old Internet was supposed to be like. I'm not sure it can be replicated. The future of the Internet seems to me to be small private "hidden" communities and mega platforms filled with garbage. No room for a middle Maybe a paid platform?
> the last refuge of what the old Internet was supposed to be like. What, how? HN is one of the most squeaky clean - corpo - heavily moderated sites with a extreme bubble centered around SV tech. Its basically the exact opposite of the old internet.
It’s primarily filled with intelligent people interested in technology. Before smartphones, that was the primary population of many (most?) websites.