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You've never heard of the Reddit hug of death? You must be pretty young to not remember it happening to lots of sites regularly for a couple of years. Part of
by mattmanser 10y ago
You've never heard of the Reddit hug of death?
You must be pretty young to not remember it happening to lots of sites regularly for a couple of years.
Part of the reason imgur took off was because people would repost content to imgur when Reddit took the source down, the web comic or whatever.
- Klathmon 10y agoI actually heard of the /. hug of death first, (and your comment feels a little condescending there) and I know of them, but it just feels like HN is such a smaller community compared to Reddit and I see the "hug of death" so much more frequently on HN than I do on reddit (or any other site like them). I was just curious about the reason why. Like does HN have a large "silent" group, or is it something like that on HN sites climb much faster so I see them when they are down before they've had a chance to recover.
- mattmanser 10y agoWhy is it condescending?