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Do you mean Slashdot was better, in its peak, than HN is now? Maybe! In my rose-tinted glasses, I'd say, yes, definitely.
by jacobush 8y ago
Do you mean Slashdot was better, in its peak, than HN is now? Maybe! In my rose-tinted glasses, I'd say, yes, definitely.
- rnd0 8y agoI joined /. in 2000; a lot of folks argue about when the peak was but 2000 either was it or was shortly thereafter. I think that HN now is far better than /. was then. Like /. of old you have knowledgeable people contributing to conversations (a great example is Walter Bright contributing to the Digital Mars D and C++ conversations) but unlike those days HN has better curated discussions so we don't have to sift through as much noise and disruptions. (I'm sure someone is nostolgic for the page-widening antics of old. That wouldn't be me, however.) I would swap HN with the /. of old any day of the week, personally speaking. And I was there!
- jacobush 8y agoI think I had a lot more tolerance for antics back then, thinking about it.
- sophacles 8y agoI think of HN as: slashdot meets kur5hin - its got the story volume and focus that reminds me of old slashdot, with the more thoughtful comment section of kuro5hin. Having seen/participated in slashdot in the late 90s, kuro5hin in the early 2000s and HN for most of it, I agree that HN today is better.