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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…
>HNs decline It's been in decline almost since it's creation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1723734 [2010] and still going strong. Perhaps it's the complaining about "decline" that keeps it great
Your account's a bit older than mine, but I don't see HN as "great" anymore, not for a long time. Just "pretty sorta good", with spurts of greatness here and there. https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ was put up 3 years ago, it's still true that you can cherry pick great comments since then that probably couldn't have been made anywhere else but it seems the frequency has declined. On the other hand ignoring the threads that attract hundreds of comments can help, but now you're in a sub community that can be punctured by the larger community at any time (this is different from a community existing on a separate site). I only looked at this thread today (I thought it'd be one of those to reach >100) since I was searching to see if anyone has posted an invitation to contact for a lobsters invite recently, it's time to spend a bit of time looking for somewhere else.