Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

I don't "do" Thanksgiving (I'm not a USian), but I have family that do, so hope that yesterday and the short break for all was good for those who enjoyed it.

I've been here 13 years and almost 3 months, meaning I'm averaging ~44 karma a month, and it's one of the few gotos I don't consider harmful.

I think most of us here would see the damage that's happened to so many communities - all of them with their eternal Septembers - and I thought the last one that would hold out because I could curate what I saw would be reddit, but no, that's gone the way of so many before it for me.

HN is an experiment in a niche community with its own broad definition of "whatever is interesting", its own values and its own quirks. It's large enough to be vibrant and diverse, but small enough to have an uncodified but recognisable culture.

If there's one change I'm going to make in the next year though, it's relating to myself. I want most of my karma next year to come from my own Show HN posts: I want to build things and share those things, not just jump in on comment threads. Let's see how that goes.

Happy holidays to all, and may the Winter to be kind to you and yours.

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Hard to believe it's been 13 years!

HN has been a wonderful source of both news and community - it connected me to my industry in ways that could only have been achieved otherwise by moving to SF or NYC.

In a way, it feels like a great continuation of my Slashdot years.

It's useful to have a common language for diagrams (actors, storage, etc)

It's not useful for more than very abstract concepts though. If you're UMLing your entire Java app before you add another class/method/function, you're doing it wrong.

I'm here just under two years (I was browsing before creating an account) and I'm immensely grateful to have this in my life. HN is a tiny corner of the internet where I can consistently find high quality stories and learn something new every day. Not only that, I also get to interact with brilliant people and have meaningful conversations, unlike so many other internet forums that are just full of hate.

Thanks to the moderators, commenters and the whole community for building and maintaining this space of the internet and adding some value to my day!