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Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#22Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#23The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama...
See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking".
The problem seems to be that the community is growing quickly and as a consequence the upvoted articles are those who cater to the lowest common denominator and it keeps getting lower. It's a problem all successful communities face.
The usual solution might be to migrate towards a smaller community as you propose, but the problem then is that you have to rebuild everything from scratch over and over again.
IMO a simpler solution would be to make a "meta-HN" which would just add an other layer of moderation on top of the existing HN:
- Remove all "drama/politics" entries
- Merge entries about the same topic under a single item.
Then just link to the usual HN comment threads. I find the quality of comments usually reflects the quality of the article so I think it would work well for me. No need to rebuild everything from scratch and rebuild the community.
The HN you once liked is still there, it's just getting increasingly buried it low-relevance contents.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#24Subreddits! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/ http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/ http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/ http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/ http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/
And of course:
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#25MetaFilter. You have to pay $5 to post comments, and the comments are formatted in such a way as to discourage trolling, long digressions, and other annoying Internet comment features. The material is usually not amazingly interesting to me, but the community is very pleasant.
MetaFilter has remained pleasant for years. Turns out $5 is a big enough hurdle to keep it sane.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#26On the startup side I'm often finding more things that are interesting to me on the community side of http://www.usv.com/
I just checked out the side. Didn't know it before. I found some interesting content. It's now part of my feedly. Thanks for the hint man.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#27http://lamernews.com/
Seems like a nice site, but only two of the current stories on the front page have comments on them (for a total of 5 comments) :-/
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#28Reddit is the best alternative of HN and the most favorable thing of this community is that it has sub communities such as Technology, Programming,etc. not like HN.
But, it also has some disadvantage such as spammers first attack, moderators are not so active, sometime you can find unusual stuffs.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#29Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#30I wish there would be a simple tag system to classify the posts a bit. For example i am not interested in most startup posts but rather would just see only programming and technology related articles.
How many tags would be sufficient to classify most posts? Startup, marketing, programming, science, politics, ... That's actually a quite hard problem!