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Hacker News wasn't around that whole time. But the fact that spacejam.com was still around was a big deal a few years ago (don't remember when I first heard tha

• codetrotter 6y ago
  It’s been discussed on HN multiple other times too in addition to the ones mentioned here. For example, here is a discussion about it on HN from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050807 I remember because it was around that time I first started browsing HN.
  • fiblye 6y ago
    What's truly impressive is if you decide to creep a bit, you'll see that loads of users from that thread still post on HN pretty actively. HN has an insanely high retention rate for being just a little news sharing site. Most people get bored, pissed off, or uninterested at some point and leave. Looking at 10 year old tweet threads or reddit comment sections is basically a graveyard in comparison. Not sure what keeps people sticking around here. In a couple days, it'll have been 10 years for me. Crazy.
    • fireattack 6y ago
      You mentioned Reddit being a graveyard, but is it true? Check this thread someone linked above from 9 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/esxwd/til_that_the_space_jam_website_is_still_up_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/esxwd/til_th... I clicked about 20 profiles, at least 70% are still active. Actually, I think this phenomenon probably is pretty common for websites that are still on rising or at least hold still (like both HN and Reddit). Their initial users don't just leave for no reason. Less active, perhaps.