Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
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Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#12Slashdot was a really good place to hang out but never got with the times and got left behind.
Digg was a good source of news a couple of years ago, then went downhill.
Reddit was tech savvy too when it started, now downward spiral.
Techcrunch for a brief moment, but Arrington blew it.
HN is my only news aggregator.
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#13Metafilter and AskMetafilter. They have a once-only $5 fee and a one-week waiting period before you can make your first post. This filters out the Digg / Yahoo! Answers crowd. They also have a culture of trusting users not to make "yo-mama" comments...which succeeds in keeping discussions cordial and intelligent.
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#14Google Reader
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#15The other sites I read are too elite, I don't want to blow them up by posting them here.
Very good comment. Most sites have a karma/points system which is not robust against dilution of intelligent comments. E.g., if the Digg-crowd started infiltrating Hacker News, then I doubt the karma system would be able to stop this.
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#16The other sites I read are too elite, I don't want to blow them up by posting them here.
Very good comment. Most sites have a karma/points system which is not robust against dilution of intelligent comments. E.g., if the Digg-crowd started infiltrating Hacker News, then I doubt the karma system would be able to stop this.
Based upon the fact that hn uses the same system for comments as reddit (only up down voting) and we know how well that worked out there really is no question that once the number of users goes up hn will resemble reddit of today, but the owners wont care because they will have a ton of users and we wont care because we will be somewhere else.
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#17Stack Overflow
Proggit
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#18The other sites I read are too elite, I don't want to blow them up by posting them here.
Very good comment. Most sites have a karma/points system which is not robust against dilution of intelligent comments. E.g., if the Digg-crowd started infiltrating Hacker News, then I doubt the karma system would be able to stop this.
I think HN has much more active curation (moderation) than Reddit has ever had.
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#19Innocuous News
Why the name change? Have I missed something?
Re: Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
#20None. Once you start posting here, you feel compelled to follow the discussion threads. Doesn't leave much time for anything else.