This is great news. I've been a member of the community for a while and it's really positive in nature, a good mix of new developers and experienced. I like the

This is great news. I've been a member of the community for a while and it's really positive in nature, a good mix of new developers and experienced. I like the culture of the people there and the values of the founders. Their success ultimately will hinge on: 1. Monetization (obviously) 2. Their ability to scale (I hope to help with this at some point) 3. Their ability to maintain the current culture. If they're able to scale out their infrastructure as people come in, find ways to make money without annoying people, and maintain the culture they have right now, the sky's the limit. I don't know a lot about the leadership other than what I've seen on the site and following them on Twitter, but they seem very capable of doing it. I have high hopes for them. To me, culture is the biggest challenge. There are communities on the internet that I refuse to do more than lurk in. I don't join communities to have flame wars (do they still call them that?), pissing contests, or play gatekeeper to new folks. But I see it all over, and it drives people like me out. I just want to talk tech, teach what I know and learn from what others know. I'm the kind of user you want on your platform. I won't drive people away or cause you legal problems. I'll help people and bring in more. But I will absolutely BAIL when it starts getting political, or toxic folks are allowed to sling crap everywhere. There are a lot of people just me that will simply walk away. No big farewell post or calling people on social media. Folks like me just walk away. So running a community you have to make choices as to what you'll tolerate and stick to it, it's a thankless and stressful job and you don't really have much control. I believe that's more challenging than things like establishing a revenue model or scaling. I just hope they can maintain what they currently have now. HN has done a good job over the years keeping their stuff moderated, so it can be done. Oh, and hopefully they don't do too much of this voting/karma crap like Reddit. Invisible internet points are what's destroyed their culture if you ask me.