You can email good submissions to Dang and see if he'll put them on the frontpage. I did this and it was a success here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608645
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#22https://lobste.rs/ feel more like old-HN
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#23I just wish there were more articles about moving to a European version of . 10 a day just isn't enough.
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#24I've not been here long enough to judge but for the last 2 years, interesting articles in the front page (page 1 to 5) are always found.
A lot of topics have changed to the topic-du-jour: AI, yet I find good discussions on other topics when browsing frontpage, and then switch to new to find interesting submissions to read without user commentary.
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#25Fully agreed. It's also that the interesting stuff quickly falls off the front page, and you have to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active to find it.
Thanks for the tip!
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#26would be interesting to see the number of daily users over the last 10+ years, homogenization is a result of appealing-to-the-masses, is it not?
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#27Forgive me for assuming you’ve only been reading a handful of years based on your registration date. I think everyone gets up to speed with it and finds less to read as topic familiarity, muscle memory, knowledge of community tropes matures. Everyone is different as far as how many articles will interest them. If you joined when a topic that greatly interested you was popular, then you’re especially going to feel tha…
Individual account signup date is an unreliable proxy for lifetime HN experience :^) Further, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 suggests HN is facing a sea change unlike any past fad (Big Data, VR/AR, NFT, Web3, ...). Due to Brandolini's law, it cannot simply be disregarded with the "semi-noob illusion as old as the hills" cudgel.
Sure; this isn’t my first account either. I did ask for forgiveness for the assumption!
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#28I just wish there were more articles about moving to a European version of . 10 a day just isn't enough.
Tons of this on Lemmy, which generally sees more European traffic.
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#29https://lobste.rs/ feel more like old-HN
I'm a fan. It's an excellent site
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#30I kind of agree with you; I had to dig too deep to find interesting topics.