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Why do we need to do this kind of comparison? They are both quite nice. I think HN is better for what I look for (but r/programminglanguages and a few others ar

Why do we need to do this kind of comparison? They are both quite nice. I think HN is better for what I look for (but r/programminglanguages and a few others are even better) as there are just a lot of people here who actually have experience with the topics discussed. PL experts, formal method experts, cancer experts, etc everyone is ready to write quite a nice explanation for nothing. The volume on Lobste.rs for some topics is just not large enough to get an insightful convo going. Also I notice a lot of Lobste.rs is a mix between my fav subreddits & HN. So it's a circlejerk. But then again r/programmingcirclejerk is one of my favorite subreddits anyway.

wenc 7y ago
> The volume on Lobste.rs for some topics is just not large enough to get an insightful convo going. I get that sense too. I looked at the titles of the links on Lobste.rs and this is a purely subjective opinion, I feel the content appeals to a specific demographic. I struggled to find a link there that would interest me (not that my opinion matters terribly). 10-15 years ago, we experienced something similar with Slashdot and Kuro5hin. Kuro supposedly had much higher quality content, but I couldn't help but feel the site only appealed to certain kinds of people. I appreciate high quality content yet could not bring myself to care about Kuro. (I'm sure many here have the opposite experience, so I'd be interested in your counterpoints). I very much believe in curation, but without volume, curation seems like pre-mature optimization, it seems to me.
- wink 7y ago
  Good point. I only ever heard positive things about kuro5hin, but I never warmed up to it, no matter how hard I tried. It's the same as some print newspapers. You know they are better than some others, but all of their content is just too... dry? for you. And no, I don't mean too high-level or non-boulevard. They just seem to have an air of something that doesn't suit you.
  - wenc 7y ago
    I once subscribed to a Canadian magazine called "The Walrus" -- it was the Canadian parallel to Harper's. The articles were well-written, but the subject matters were... how to put this... oh so boring. They were all these long-form articles about first-world upper middle class white-bread issues that few people actually cared about except for the insular literary classes. I killed my subscription and subscribed to the Atlantic instead.
ASalazarMX 7y ago
It's just the monthly "promote Lobste.rs in HackerNews because we have very few people" post.

wenc 7y ago

> The volume on Lobste.rs for some topics is just not large enough to get an insightful convo going. I get that sense too. I looked at the titles of the links on Lobste.rs and this is a purely subjective opinion, I feel the content appeals to a specific demographic. I struggled to find a link there that would interest me (not that my opinion matters terribly). 10-15 years ago, we experienced something similar with Slashdot and Kuro5hin. Kuro supposedly had much higher quality content, but I couldn't help but feel the site only appealed to certain kinds of people. I appreciate high quality content yet could not bring myself to care about Kuro. (I'm sure many here have the opposite experience, so I'd be interested in your counterpoints). I very much believe in curation, but without volume, curation seems like pre-mature optimization, it seems to me.

wink 7y ago
Good point. I only ever heard positive things about kuro5hin, but I never warmed up to it, no matter how hard I tried. It's the same as some print newspapers. You know they are better than some others, but all of their content is just too... dry? for you. And no, I don't mean too high-level or non-boulevard. They just seem to have an air of something that doesn't suit you.
- wenc 7y ago
  I once subscribed to a Canadian magazine called "The Walrus" -- it was the Canadian parallel to Harper's. The articles were well-written, but the subject matters were... how to put this... oh so boring. They were all these long-form articles about first-world upper middle class white-bread issues that few people actually cared about except for the insular literary classes. I killed my subscription and subscribed to the Atlantic instead.

ASalazarMX 7y ago

It's just the monthly "promote Lobste.rs in HackerNews because we have very few people" post.