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No snark intended, but I feel like you are basically describing reddit, with its subreddits and customizable front page. If you unsubscribe from main, funny, p

by pault 16y ago

No snark intended, but I feel like you are basically describing reddit, with its subreddits and customizable front page. If you unsubscribe from main, funny, pics, politics, askreddit, and add programming, computer science, mathematics, etc to your front page, you will get a pretty high quality experience, IMO (at least no 4chan garbage). The main difference that I perceive between the two sites is that reddit seems to have a slightly younger demographic, skewing towards college students, while HN seems to be mostly older, working professionals, and silicon valley heavy-hitters. Remember when reddit was the upstream digg? Now digg is dead and HN is the upstream reddit. If there's an upstream HN, by the time I find out about it, people will be complaining about how badly the community has declined lately. :) EDIT: Never mind, I just unsubscribed from all the default reddits and it's still mostly crap. Carry on...

ilovecomputers 16y ago
What does it matter? These complaints of decline in community quality is all superficial. In the end, all that matters is how you use a site. What is it that you want out of these sites? Expert Opinion? Helpful articles? The Zeitgeist among your peers? The analysis of the community might help you decide how to use a site to your liking, but because it is superficial, it will be of little help. Seek out the experts yourself or trim through the article listings yourself instead of basing it completely on a democratic vote system. The quality of the community will only make this process more convenient, but it is the quality of individual posters that define what is most helpful to you. Now, I would like to compile a list of posters whom I can trust for insightful comments on a particular matter instead of posting assumptions. So far, I know of pg, joshu...crap, I wish there were avatars here. Why was I stuck with just visual memory like a common human? Unicode avatars would have been helpful: ❤
InclinedPlane 16y ago
In simplest terms the HN community & culture fosters open minded discussion while reddit fosters group think. Even if HN has lost its edge over time that fundamental difference is worth fighting for and worth coming back to HN.

by pault 16y ago

ilovecomputers 16y ago

What does it matter? These complaints of decline in community quality is all superficial. In the end, all that matters is how you use a site. What is it that you want out of these sites? Expert Opinion? Helpful articles? The Zeitgeist among your peers? The analysis of the community might help you decide how to use a site to your liking, but because it is superficial, it will be of little help. Seek out the experts yourself or trim through the article listings yourself instead of basing it completely on a democratic vote system. The quality of the community will only make this process more convenient, but it is the quality of individual posters that define what is most helpful to you. Now, I would like to compile a list of posters whom I can trust for insightful comments on a particular matter instead of posting assumptions. So far, I know of pg, joshu...crap, I wish there were avatars here. Why was I stuck with just visual memory like a common human? Unicode avatars would have been helpful: ❤

InclinedPlane 16y ago

In simplest terms the HN community & culture fosters open minded discussion while reddit fosters group think. Even if HN has lost its edge over time that fundamental difference is worth fighting for and worth coming back to HN.