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wow, that’s one helluva response. HN in 2007 seems like a wonderful place

• amznthrwaway 5y ago
  It really was. There was also vibrant adjoining professional community. It’s part of why I find it so sad that the moderation here is abhorrent; strongly emphasizing social cohesion amongst a specific group over much more valuable principles.
• libria 5y ago
  Like the featured article, HN threads - then and now - are pretty low-key in regards to participant introductions. Usernames are just text, no flair or qualifiers so the focus is on the speaker's content itself. `libria` is free to converse with `cperciva` as an equal peer which is nice, because most other IRL forums I'd be acutely aware that's not the case ;)
• Hallucinaut 5y ago
  I like the part where someone calls cperciva's idea bad, he says what's bad about it then the founder of Dropbox replies saying they're just starting and it sounds like they're in the same space. Pretty good bad idea