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Regret to inform you that HN's Eternal September passed circa 2011. Before that, according to my recollection, the community was mostly YC founders and employee
by psyc 9y ago
Regret to inform you that HN's Eternal September passed circa 2011. Before that, according to my recollection, the community was mostly YC founders and employees. Discussions were mostly about web startups, ideas, and tech. Tone was professional, comments were substantive, and people used their real names. Best of all, people were free to share their experiences without being harangued at every turn by the "citation needed" and "my science is more science than your science" cargo cults that became entrenched here at some point.
- psyc 9y agoAlmost forgot: Paul Graham used to comment frequently, and now he comments never.
- fabrice_d 9y agoHe's too busy since he joined the resistance...
- mattmanser 9y agoYou're a couple of years out, I joined in March 2009, the week of the big Erlang post push to dissuade all the new posters where eventually pg asked everyone to stop posting Erlang items: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 I think that was the beginning of the eternal september. I think I found it via a mention on Coding Horror. From my perspective, HN is now much more developer centric and less startup centric, and my impression is the change started happening pretty much when product hunt launched. These days you rarely see a show on the front page and there are a lot less business-y startup articles, at least during EU hours. Like, right now, I would say there isn't a single startup article on the front page, where it used to be 40/40/20 dev/startup/random interesting stuff, it's now more like 75/5/20. You get a lot more startup content by looking on Ask HN than by looking at the front page.