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I completely agree, I got downvoted to hell in another thread for implying this but I think its true - HN has grown/jumped ths shark, it used to be startups peo

by Jedi72 9y ago

I completely agree, I got downvoted to hell in another thread for implying this but I think its true - HN has grown/jumped ths shark, it used to be startups people and devs and the content reflected it, now HN audience seems to be anyone in a slightly technical role or industry. There was a sweet spot for a while where we had a lot of stimulatingand diverse comversation about good topics but now I find too much noise in the feed. If Im right (the HN admins will know by checking the user counts), maybe HN should split up unto subboards, have dedicated web dev or ML sections etc.

krapp 9y ago
Complaints about HN's quality declining are practically as old as the site itself[0, 1], as is the mistaken belief that HN is intended to be exclusively about programming and technical content (leading to the mistaken conclusion that the presence of non-technical content is a sign of HN "turning into Reddit", which is common enough that there used to be an explicit rule about it[2].) If you want to see better content, post better content, or put more effort into the quality of your comments. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781854 [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198041 [2]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=HN https://hn.algolia.com/?query=HN turning into reddit
- psyc 9y ago
  HN had a major Eternal September crisis in 2011, which was widely acknowledged by many users, and Paul Graham himself. It got to the point where he experimented with the gamification aspects of the site in a token attempt to slow the decline. Naturally, at the time, many folks also made comments similar to yours. That was 7 years ago. The good ol' HN is never coming back, at least not here, but that's no justification for denying it ever existed.

by Jedi72 9y ago

krapp 9y ago

Complaints about HN's quality declining are practically as old as the site itself[0, 1], as is the mistaken belief that HN is intended to be exclusively about programming and technical content (leading to the mistaken conclusion that the presence of non-technical content is a sign of HN "turning into Reddit", which is common enough that there used to be an explicit rule about it[2].) If you want to see better content, post better content, or put more effort into the quality of your comments. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781854 [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198041 [2]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=HN https://hn.algolia.com/?query=HN turning into reddit

psyc 9y ago
HN had a major Eternal September crisis in 2011, which was widely acknowledged by many users, and Paul Graham himself. It got to the point where he experimented with the gamification aspects of the site in a token attempt to slow the decline. Naturally, at the time, many folks also made comments similar to yours. That was 7 years ago. The good ol' HN is never coming back, at least not here, but that's no justification for denying it ever existed.