I'll add another one that has transpired: the technical and expert knowledge has gone elsewhere. The board is nowadays predominantly populated by emotional outb

I'll add another one that has transpired: the technical and expert knowledge has gone elsewhere. The board is nowadays predominantly populated by emotional outbursts from people who have next to no idea what they are talking about regarding the subject matter. The threads on COVID where everyone is a statistics trained doctor is a good showcase of what the board has turned into. I don't even want to bother discussing tech stuff here anymore. People can make fun of Reddit all they want, but while they have a larger population of people who are there to shitpost, they also have a larger population of people who know what they are talking about. As one person said, HN is "no longer really populated by hackers". It's an embarrassment. Others have mentioned that the downvoting brigade is in full swing, and that there seems to be a lot of shitflinging in general. As for moderation, DanG does a great job of staying out of it but I do wish he would toss his weight around a bit more.