Shukran Dan
Tell HN: Thank You Dang
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Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang
#132Thank you Dan.
Dan also helped promote one of my open-source projects. I'm grateful for all that he does.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are no communities like this because of Eternal September like phenomena. If HN acquires a million readers tomorrow, it'll be unrecognizable very soon. Nicheness on its own creates valuable communities. Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled
> Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI This was actually my only quibble with HN. I love the simplicity and the fact that HN doesn't suffer from the "obesity" that plagues modern websites, but I felt it could use some features. For instance, the ability to filter it by time (it does have that filter already for days, months and so on, but not hours), or have an official app for the site could be awesome.…
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Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
There are no communities like this because of Eternal September like phenomena. If HN acquires a million readers tomorrow, it'll be unrecognizable very soon. Nicheness on its own creates valuable communities. Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled
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Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
All other communities are money driven ad bloated and later sponsored with bunch of crap products. And motivation is to promote stuff nonstop and moderation allows it. HN doesn't do any of those.
>All other communities are money driven
Not really, there are decent programming communities, but the ones I know aren't using english.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
HN discourages the sort of clever-yet-unsubstantial one-liner jokes that earn a lot of karma on Reddit. It reserves the space for thoughtful discussions. Getting rid of the memes simply doesn't fly in other online communities. I'd also put money on the average age of HN commenter being higher than that of other internet communities. I know of other rich and healthy online communities, but they are fairly niche.
> I'd also put money on the average age of HN commenter being higher than that of other internet communities.
That might be true. However, from my experience maturity is way more important than actual age. Some maturity comes with age, but a lot of it is also individual behaviour in my opinion.
Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang
#137Thanks dang! I lurk 24/7/365 and rarely login to comment, but I always see you posting helpful things in threads, referencing other pages when comments get too long, editing titles to be more helpful, keeping discussions from devolving into arguments, and just overall keeping the quality of HN high. You're doing great and everyone here appreciates what you do!
Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang
#138Thanks dang! I lurk 24/7/365 and rarely login to comment, but I always see you posting helpful things in threads, referencing other pages when comments get too long, editing titles to be more helpful, keeping discussions from devolving into arguments, and just overall keeping the quality of HN high. You're doing great and everyone here appreciates what you do!
I think we also need to highlight that Dang is also responsible for creating the mechanisms and rules for an environment which nudges everyone to be better (manner-wise, research-wise, skill-wise) without breaking their soul. On the contrary, it's one of the most well-mannered/civilized discussion environment and, one of the handful places which improved me in many fronts.
Of course there are exceptions but, it's much better than some of the places which just punish you for being late, being a beginner, making a mistake or just thinking differently.
He might be the sole reason that I'm attached to this place like a koala defending his branch.
Thanks a lot, honestly.
Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang
#139Thanks to Paul, Dan and Scott for keeping the community calm and well.
I'm new to HN. Is Scott 'sctb , and is he still involved in moderation?
Looks like he's not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21930336
Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang
#140Thank you Dang, I appreciate all the work you do to keep HN awesome!