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This has been my view for a while too. Most internet forums I use are a shadow of their former selves. When I first started browsing hn I was blown away with h
by eulo__ 9y ago
This has been my view for a while too. Most internet forums I use are a shadow of their former selves.
When I first started browsing hn I was blown away with how smart and insightful the posts were. Ideas I had never thought of and quite a few I struggled to even comprehend.
It's very rare to see that now days.
- pault 9y agoAre you sure it's not because you're better educated and harder to impress? I thought the same thing until I did a deep dive on some old articles and the comments weren't noticably different.
- eulo__ 9y agoProbably a factor, I also think it's partly because the forums I use at the moment used to be programming centric, but have since broadened their appeal. Hn to Tech business, reddit to literally everything. Lobste.rs has been a fantastic alternative for decent discussion
- smaddox 9y agoThanks for pointing out Lobste.rs. I had never seen it before. It looks like it adds back some of the good ideas from the Slashdot of yore.
- emodendroket 9y agoAnd what's with music and TV now? When I was younger everything was good, but now it's bad.
- eulo__ 9y agoYeah nar, false dichotomy imo
- specialist 9y agoEveryone thinks this. I was the hub of a PC-Relay network (the FidoNet era), a moderator on CompuServe, and very active on various game boards. It's never been any different. Social circles have a life cycle, span. When the current one sours, go find the next one. Or start a new one with some friends. I think Clay Shirky's article about a group being its own worst enemy applies. Probably monkeyspheres too.
- soufron 9y agoThe Life Cycle of Social Circles... you got a book title there ;)