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I found hugely inspiring/interesting things written by pg, spolsky, pmarca, zedshaw, AndrewWarner, dhh and others. None of them comment here much these days. T

by xiaoma 11y ago

I found hugely inspiring/interesting things written by pg, spolsky, pmarca, zedshaw, AndrewWarner, dhh and others. None of them comment here much these days. This is natural as HN has become a much, much larger and more mainstream site. Interestingly, it's not like the shifts away from Slashdot and Reddit, where there's a new forum where people have moved to (except their own personal communities). If there's a place that has sucked up most of the conversation, it would be Twitter.

onedev 11y ago
> If there's a place that has sucked up most of the conversation, it would be Twitter. The conversations on Twitter are unfortunately not of the same fidelity as the ones on a traditional forum where you can actually compose full thoughts. Perhaps it's better to say that Twitter has sucked up most of the attention of those same people. Subtle distinction but huge difference imo because I can't go follow those same people on Twitter and expect the same type of conversation as they would have made on HN.
- Mz 11y ago
  Perhaps it's better to say that Twitter has sucked up most of the attention of those same people. I suspect the cause and effect relationship runs the other way: Most likely, people are going to Twitter because HN does not have the same quality of atmosphere it had when I joined.