Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#112I think the only satisfactory alternative to HN, which could attract hackers and hackers only would be some sort of a termminal application, and you would be able to browse it through terminal only, that way we could get rid off all the classy people and hence the drama/politics posts it will be a hacker's paradise like HN used to be. The only question is, how do we do it ?
We use Usenet? (although I'm sure that there are good GUIs now)
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#113I've been spending more time in the technology dedicated subreddits. While the general content is lesser than HN was ~1 year ago, it's more on topic. I only see 3-4 stories a day on HN worth reading, which honestly is nice because it limits my browsing time.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Used to be /r/programming... not anymore though. Just go to techcrunch and wired.com, that way you'll see everything that makes it to proggit - but only once, instead of every day for a week. The more specific the better, provided there's a lot of subscribers and there's regular new developments in the topic of interest. So /r/doctorwho sucks pretty hard when the show isn't in season. There's a lot of crocheted figur…
It sounds like /r/doctorwho suffers from a particular thing I've observed, which is that the more specific a subreddit is to some target of fandom, the more likely it's filled with cringeworthy uncritical fanboys.
And fangirls - responsible for most of the crocheting and cupcakes.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#115Theneeds [1]? We built Theneeds with a similar idea in mind, that people should come and just find interesting stuff, personalized according to their interests (we learn from users' activity to get smarter about what the interests really are). We focus on a broader range of topics than just tech & science, thought there is a good selection about that too. [1] http://www.theneeds.com
I tried your site out, it's pretty cool but some of the backgrounds make it completely unusable. Make it as minimal as possible, people are meant to stare at this for a long time.
I agree, the backgrounds sometimes are annoying. Despite this, cool site.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#116http://lobste.rs
I think the invitation tree is what kept this from gaining sufficient traction. That's a very difficult model to get right, especially for an extremely below-the-radar site. Even Google didn't get it right with G+.