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Speaking purely for myself, I only signed up a month or two ago. I came from Reddit (surprise, surprise) and despite not being an entrepreneur or a hacker/deve

by KoZeN 16y ago

Speaking purely for myself, I only signed up a month or two ago. I came from Reddit (surprise, surprise) and despite not being an entrepreneur or a hacker/developer/programmer I absolutely love the site as I am an aspiring entrepreneur/developer witha vested interest in new technology. I made a point of reading the rules relating to submissions and comments and I actively abide by them simply because I respect the fact that HN wants to maintain intellectual & relevant discussions and not become a haven for trolls and lolcat fans. I recently went back to reddit to see if I was missing anything and it was honestly like going from having an informed discussion with a mature professional, well established in his field to having a conversation with my thirteen year old cousin who's two key interests in life are practical jokes and boobies. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of love for Reddit but at this point it is more of a guilty pleasure than anything else. HN got quite a bit of exposure on Reddit recently due to some of the older users complaining about the Eternal September that they are experiencing and it was there that I discovered this wonderful part of the web. I may be new and I may not be as well informed as a lot of people on this site but be nice to me please as one day I plan to take over the world.

jacquesm 16y ago
> but be nice to me please as one day I plan to take over the world. That's a fairly common goal around here, so please be nice in return ;) As for the changes, yes, they're there. I spent a lot of time half a year ago to try to get my finger behind whether or not HN is changing and the answer is a definite 'yes', but it's definitely not all bad. New people bring new perspectives on subjects, the 'tone' of HN is guarded quite zealously and even if there are (a few) more trolls on the whole it is surprising how well the atmosphere holds up. At the beginning of the year I predicted that HN would split, this has now happened in the form of the 'Ask' section being given its own spot. Probably in the future there will be more such splits if and when they make sense. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing all the 'tech rumours' separate from the subjects related to coding. Even the most rudimentary newspapers know to split their content up in to a sports section and the rest so I can skip that bit without having to bother reading all the headlines. Have you found http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic already ?
- KoZeN 16y ago
  Have you found http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic already? What's the difference? Hadn't come across it before and to be honest it doesn't appear massively different?
  - derefr 16y ago
    It excludes the votes of new users from the page sorting algorithm.
    - KoZeN 16y ago
      Excellent. This place keeps getting better & better!
      - mahmud 16y ago
        Because the classic view excludes the input of people like yourself? :-D
user24 16y ago
I'm in very much the same boat, though I am a hacker/developer/programmer. I'm still using reddit more than HN, but I can see myself slowly gravitating towards HN. One thing that really does make reddit more bearable though is to unsubscribe from most subreddits. Once you drop askreddit, iama, pics, wtf, reddit.com, funny, etc, etc, and you're left with a nice core of coding, programming, (language-of-choice-subreddit), machinelearning, compsci and webdesign, you actually start seeing the more intelligent side.

by KoZeN 16y ago

jacquesm 16y ago

> but be nice to me please as one day I plan to take over the world. That's a fairly common goal around here, so please be nice in return ;) As for the changes, yes, they're there. I spent a lot of time half a year ago to try to get my finger behind whether or not HN is changing and the answer is a definite 'yes', but it's definitely not all bad. New people bring new perspectives on subjects, the 'tone' of HN is guarded quite zealously and even if there are (a few) more trolls on the whole it is surprising how well the atmosphere holds up. At the beginning of the year I predicted that HN would split, this has now happened in the form of the 'Ask' section being given its own spot. Probably in the future there will be more such splits if and when they make sense. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing all the 'tech rumours' separate from the subjects related to coding. Even the most rudimentary newspapers know to split their content up in to a sports section and the rest so I can skip that bit without having to bother reading all the headlines. Have you found http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic already ?

KoZeN 16y ago
Have you found http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic already? What's the difference? Hadn't come across it before and to be honest it doesn't appear massively different?
- derefr 16y ago
  It excludes the votes of new users from the page sorting algorithm.
  - KoZeN 16y ago
    Excellent. This place keeps getting better & better!
    - mahmud 16y ago
      Because the classic view excludes the input of people like yourself? :-D

user24 16y ago

I'm in very much the same boat, though I am a hacker/developer/programmer. I'm still using reddit more than HN, but I can see myself slowly gravitating towards HN. One thing that really does make reddit more bearable though is to unsubscribe from most subreddits. Once you drop askreddit, iama, pics, wtf, reddit.com, funny, etc, etc, and you're left with a nice core of coding, programming, (language-of-choice-subreddit), machinelearning, compsci and webdesign, you actually start seeing the more intelligent side.