It somehow felt a lot better IMO when it was "Startup News"
Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.
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#12Thing is, Reddit really sucks now. I was just visiting it today and was amazed by the number of ignoranuses (ignoranus = someone who is both stupid and an asshole) on it. I wonder if this is the eventual fate of all online communities. I've been through at least half a dozen now, and I've yet to see one survive as something other than trite, meaningless bullshit. The curious thing is - in at least one case (HP fandom…
love the newly coined word and its etymology :)
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#13Also, Reddit doesn't have as much meaningless drama. As of right now, anyway.
Just wait until the next impeachment petition.
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#14Thing is, Reddit really sucks now. I was just visiting it today and was amazed by the number of ignoranuses (ignoranus = someone who is both stupid and an asshole) on it. I wonder if this is the eventual fate of all online communities. I've been through at least half a dozen now, and I've yet to see one survive as something other than trite, meaningless bullshit. The curious thing is - in at least one case (HP fandom…
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#15I don't see any reason to choose between ynews and reddit. The level of technical dialogue here is better, no question -- and for awesome lolcats and social interest anecdotes, like http://politics.reddit.com/goto?id=2g6mu, there's reddit.
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#16I really liked the fact that YCombinator news was a niche site and I often wonder if the future of these sosial news sites is not having every category on a different site to deal with the signal vs noise factor...
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#17Why not create www.startupnews.com? If you want the code, google 'reddit clone'. I think the lisp community wrote atleast a dozen reddit clones after reddit switched from lisp to python.
I say this because a lot of people have a problem with the change from a startup focused to a hacker focused site.
Since you already have a community which is united around a common vision, it's probably worth acting now and create another site.
The lisp hackers did a similar thing when reddit moved from lisp to python. For some reason they thought that reddit was only for lisp hackers. BTW, I don't think that worked as most lisp hackers were already active on cll or #lisp
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#18I have two recommendations:
1. Have patience.
2. Be a part of the solution.
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#19talk about sycophancy
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#20Thing is, Reddit really sucks now. I was just visiting it today and was amazed by the number of ignoranuses (ignoranus = someone who is both stupid and an asshole) on it. I wonder if this is the eventual fate of all online communities. I've been through at least half a dozen now, and I've yet to see one survive as something other than trite, meaningless bullshit. The curious thing is - in at least one case (HP fandom…
Hot links are great for discussion as many people will see them. But perhaps not many will interest you.
Personalized links (assuming personalization works well) would come closer to your interests, but there may be few people to discuss them with.
And so one might consider a way to allow users to pick some point between these two extremes that they would be happy with.