Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#1

Post by orangeyjuicey » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 8:33 AM UTC

Right now, HN is my favorite source of new information and I really like it.

But I think places like these can have a tendency to become bad, which might happen too far into the future for the alternative to already exist, but given that I feel it's taken a long time in my life to find this website, I wouldn't mind having a list somewhere of websites to try if I ever feel like this one isn't fun anymore.

So the question is, if HN was suddenly down, where do you think we would all go? (and maybe, where do you think we should go?)

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#2

Post by forcry » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 9:26 AM UTC

> Right now, HN is my favorite source of new information and I really like it.

I know this is not what you asked, but find a library. Nothing that is online is trustworthy anymore.

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#3

Post by throwAwayFr » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC

Implying HN isn't already bad?

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#4

Post by joshxyz » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 9:38 AM UTC

> So the question is, if HN was suddenly down, where do you think we would all go? (and maybe, where do you think we should go?)

nowhere lol lets be honest, but if its consistently down you can expect peeps here tweeting about it, haha.

global sites offline? check hn.

hn offline? check twitter.

lol

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#5

Post by joshxyz » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 9:40 AM UTC

throwAwayFr wrote: post #3

Implying HN isn't already bad?

its still good (as someone who found this site just couple years ago) but every once in a while someone links an old thread, you're partially right.

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#6

Post by methusala8 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:02 AM UTC

Twitter is useful if one is able to avoid toxic conversations.

My policy is to mute certain words/people which trigger hostile exchange. With this mechanism in place, I have been able to follow a few interesting voices.

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#7

Post by thinkingemote » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:04 AM UTC

I would go back to real world meetups. Remember Linux user groups?

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#8

Post by uyt » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:06 AM UTC

joshxyz wrote: post #5

throwAwayFr wrote: post #3

Implying HN isn't already bad?

its still good (as someone who found this site just couple years ago) but every once in a while someone links an old thread, you're partially right.

It's just selection bias. If those threads weren't great they wouldn't be linked. A better test would be to use wayback machine to look at a random date's front page and its threads.

Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#9

Post by twtwtw23454 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

throwAwayFr wrote: post #3

Implying HN isn't already bad?

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Re: Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

#10

Post by simonblack » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 12:02 AM UTC

I keep looking at 'Lobsters'. However it's a bit more 'tech' than HN.