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Having a small community and not being well-known are not advantages. I am not sure I can agree with this. Smaller communities are often nicer. Think of all
by stonemetal 16y ago
Having a small community and not being well-known are not advantages. I am not sure I can agree with this. Smaller communities are often nicer. Think of all the talk around here of growing pains, loss of niceness, comparisons to Reddit or Dig, eternal September, etc. that have come about as the community grows.
- gabrielroth 16y agoThat's one way in which a discussion community like HN is different from an open-source product-user community.
- stonemetal 16y agoOpen source projects have a very similar problem. When there were 20 people in the Linux community they could all be considered kernel hackers and communicate amongst themselves, now that there are millions they can't assume every member of the community is a kernel hacker, the 'kernel hacker' ability of the average community member has fallen.