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Slashdot was/is a community of open source nerds. HN was a community of Silicon Valley startup founders. Though because of its title, more and more nerds switc
by frik 11y ago
Slashdot was/is a community of open source nerds.
HN was a community of Silicon Valley startup founders. Though because of its title, more and more nerds switched over from Reddit/Slashdot/Digg. Until early 2015 HN was mainly inhabited from Linux and MacOS people. But Microsoft invaded HN around their Build 2015 conference in May 2015. Nowadays a lot of sock puppets and fanboys with MSFT background are on HN and try to downvote everything slightly not so pretty. Nowadays "Show HN" is already a bit off-putting with cynical comments and harsh critics. HN certainly needs better voting-ring and paid sock puppet detection - hint: they are only active in certain timezones and mainly on a weekdays.
The question is what HN want to be. I visit HN for startup news and occasionally open source news. Who in the right mind would use vendor lock-in mediocre expensive licensed software for a startup? Although, I am okay with Windows 7, I hate Win8/10 with a passion because MSFT turned to a mean company again (bad ModernUI, don't care about consumer anymore at all, privacy debacle of Win10, turns everything to SaaS, evil license changes). And therefore would welcome to see less MSFT sock puppets and less FUD on HN. Remember HN used to be a group of very intelligent people, burn them once and we will remember that forever, burn them twice... you know, better stop that right now.
- schwap 11y ago> hint: they are only active in certain timezones and mainly on a weekdays. Huh, I bet that's the US/Pacific timezone. What an astounding correlation you've stumbled upon[1] [1]https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
- amlgsmsn 11y ago>Slashdot was/is a community of open source nerds. > less FUD on HN So it's FUD only if it's not anti-MS FUD? There was plenty of anti-MS FUD on Slashdot. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-dr... http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/03/17/1914209/microsoft-to-abandon-windows-phone http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/03/17/1914209/microsoft-... http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/2329249/windows-7-memory-usage-critic-outed-as-fraud http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/2329249/windows-7-me... Do you think the above stories and comments are FUD or not? Eventually the biased story selection by editors, circlejerk, echo chamber and biased moderation got so bad that the site pretty much died. Do we want that to happen on here as well? >I visit HN for startup news and occasionally open source news Then perhaps just move past the other posts you're not interested in, like the HoloLens or Open Sourcing of .NET and other libraries announcements which are definitely 'Hacker News' material. Or spend more time on other places like /r/linux etc. >Who in the right mind would use vendor lock-in mediocre expensive licensed software for a startup That's totally your opinion, it works for some companies like StackOverflow. >less FUD on HN Can you link me to some of this FUD you're talking about?
- Locke1689 11y agoYou have an account only 947 days old. While I can attest that HN has always had a significant amount of startup stuff, that was nowhere near the entirety of the site. I remember when the front page was filled entirely with Erlang articles, for example, and I'm damn sure no more than a tiny fraction of HN was using or considering Erlang for production at that time.
- dang 11y ago> that was nowhere near the entirety of the site Nor is it now. Speaking of Erlang, there have been three Joe Armstrong articles on the front page in the last week.