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1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

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Re: 1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

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Post by ekianjo »

Udo wrote: post #7

Wow, site is hosed already. It's probably a good idea to do some basic load testing on your site before submitting a link ;) Anyway, this is day 1130 for me. Before here I was on Slashdot, but had largely stopped using it before that. All its weaknesses and rough edges aside, to me HN is simply the most worthwhile forum I've ever been on. I get most of my tech news from here, it has largely replaced RSS to be honest,…

> It's probably a good idea to do some basic load testing on your site before submitting a link ;)

Yeah, I just never expected it would get so much attention. I guess I'll have to be more careful next.

Re: 1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

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Post by [deleted] »

ekianjo wrote: post #11
Udo wrote: post #7

Wow, site is hosed already. It's probably a good idea to do some basic load testing on your site before submitting a link ;) Anyway, this is day 1130 for me. Before here I was on Slashdot, but had largely stopped using it before that. All its weaknesses and rough edges aside, to me HN is simply the most worthwhile forum I've ever been on. I get most of my tech news from here, it has largely replaced RSS to be honest,…

> It's probably a good idea to do some basic load testing on your site before submitting a link ;) Yeah, I just never expected it would get so much attention. I guess I'll have to be more careful next.

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Re: 1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

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Post by bbx »

I'm not a hacker, and actually don't even remember how I ended up here some day back in August 2009. I was one of those for whom the term "hacker" had a negative connotation.

I'm a designer and I didn't understand 90% of the topics discussed here. But the reason why I stuck around and why HN eventually became my most visited site, is the community's quality. Comment threads usually spawn multi-leveled discussions with various but not radical opinions about a topic. The top comment can slightly favor point A while its top answer moderates the tone with or without contradicting it. The result is a a discussion with various shades while most comment threads on other websites are generally black or white and favor one-liner jokes to in-depth opinions.

I believe Digg was still around in 2009 but was mostly focused on offbeat news. Slashdot never appealed to me. And even though reddit covers a lot of topics, the community isn't really open to discussion and/or criticism.

Although HN is mostly a tech news site, it oddly taught me more about arts, politics, business and lifestyle than any other website. I guess quality can't restrict itself to one single topic.

Re: 1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

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Post by jacques_chester »

onion2k wrote: post #4

HN reminds me of the early days of Slashdot - news before it breaks elsewhere, a good-natured and interesting community, me karma-whoring when I should be working... :)

Maybe it's teenage nostalgia talking, but I think Slashdot was a bigger deal.

Re: 1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

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Post by elorant »

I have a love-hate relationship with HN. On one hand, I love the insight I get in technical issues as also in business matters in general. I also like the fact that there is a certain level of respect in different views which you don’t often see in public forums especially technical ones. I rarely happen to see inflammatory comments. And I love the simplicity of the design. Sure it leaves a lot to be desired but in a functional level it’s just brilliant. You get the content which is the important thing without any fluff.

From the other hand, my most productive days/weeks is when I stop reading it altogether. It’s like a black hole that sucks you into an alternative reality and you lose focus of your priorities. There are times when I check it three or four times daily and this hammers my productivity a lot.

Either way, I consider it the most important community in the IT world right now and one of the best all around.

Re: 1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

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Post by m_ram »

bbx wrote: post #14

I'm not a hacker, and actually don't even remember how I ended up here some day back in August 2009. I was one of those for whom the term "hacker" had a negative connotation. I'm a designer and I didn't understand 90% of the topics discussed here. But the reason why I stuck around and why HN eventually became my most visited site, is the community's quality. Comment threads usually spawn multi-leveled discussions wit…

I agree with you 100%, but I come from the other side. There are just enough articles on design and business to give me additional perspective and knowledge, but not too many that I lose interest or have a hard time filtering them out.

I've only been around here for about two years. Before that, I kept up on reddit. I still use reddit regularly, but limit myself to a small selection of subreddits.

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