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Design that stands the test of time :)
It's still as bad as it always was, if that's what you mean. :P http://hckrnews.com/ is much better.
There's a page out there somewhere, where someone curates a list of all the alternative HN portals.
Clickbait titles, useful advice "how to track user's mouse movement" (!!) , and Europe's osteoporosis. Good times though; for me Hacker news has lost a lot of its appeal in the past 4-5 years, as for some reason it has become overly political and "suits-oriented". I used to read a lot of technical commentary, which i now find on reddit instead.
I so rarely come across a commenter who shares this opinion that I feel like I want to hug you. Hacker news has declined in quality. The most precipitous drop in my opinion was right after all the buzz about Facebook becoming less popular, musk joining mastodon and everyone in the comments brainstorming about alternative social media schemes. After that things really took a dive. I think it has to do with the influx…
This is the real problem with HN and with pretty much all other more serious social sites. And the best example of it is you, posting this slightly controversial reply, using a brand new account. Yes, you might actually be a lurker that just created the account to post this, while reading the website for many years, but while I can't prove that's not the case, you can't either prove that is the case.
I wonder what will happen to HN if the karma system gets removed.
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I so rarely come across a commenter who shares this opinion that I feel like I want to hug you. Hacker news has declined in quality. The most precipitous drop in my opinion was right after all the buzz about Facebook becoming less popular, musk joining mastodon and everyone in the comments brainstorming about alternative social media schemes. After that things really took a dive. I think it has to do with the influx…
> Lobsters isn’t good enough because [...] people are really afraid to comment there because they might mar their image or get their invite revoked. This is the real problem with HN and with pretty much all other more serious social sites. And the best example of it is you, posting this slightly controversial reply, using a brand new account. Yes, you might actually be a lurker that just created the account to post t…
Clickbait titles, useful advice "how to track user's mouse movement" (!!) , and Europe's osteoporosis. Good times though; for me Hacker news has lost a lot of its appeal in the past 4-5 years, as for some reason it has become overly political and "suits-oriented". I used to read a lot of technical commentary, which i now find on reddit instead.
I so rarely come across a commenter who shares this opinion that I feel like I want to hug you. Hacker news has declined in quality. The most precipitous drop in my opinion was right after all the buzz about Facebook becoming less popular, musk joining mastodon and everyone in the comments brainstorming about alternative social media schemes. After that things really took a dive. I think it has to do with the influx…
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I so rarely come across a commenter who shares this opinion that I feel like I want to hug you. Hacker news has declined in quality. The most precipitous drop in my opinion was right after all the buzz about Facebook becoming less popular, musk joining mastodon and everyone in the comments brainstorming about alternative social media schemes. After that things really took a dive. I think it has to do with the influx…
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I would rather be able to visit some central resource rather than mix email and discussion forums. Mixing those things together just feels wrong. Mailing lists tend to be extremely visually jarring. But there’s no difference between a mailing list and any other form of community. The packaging doesn’t matter. So I’m confused why you seem to think the packaging will help in some way. What matters is the moderation, th…
People often say that about mailing lists, but I often wonder if they have used any really good mailing list software. I mean, it's been years, but back in the day we used to write software for dealing with mailing lists and usenet posts and the degree of control you had was so much better than forum software. With forums, you get what your host wants you to see. With mailing lists/usenet you get a feed of data that…
You don't need an archive link to view HN at a given time. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-20
Looks like it hasn't changed much... which is a good thing!
Much prefer it in its current form. Way more interesting content across so many subject areas. We still have plenty of interesting stuff for startup fans, too. If anything, it's strange and kind of amazing that it got here starting from a narrowly-focused beginning. I came in too late to see how that transition happened. Would've been interesting to watch.
Slow and mostly in hindsight. I’m not a big fan that many front page links are to big news outlets nowadays. It’s not hard to find NYT, WSJ, Economist, etc news and I’m not generally seeking out that type of content here. But I see a lot of it on HN now. And geez so many paywall links. I liked it much more when it was more independent content. More focused on learning and building. It felt like the whole start up thi…