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Reddit has become another VC invested company where crippling features, dark patterns on forced "adoption" and dark "growth" hacks du jours are the norms. I'm
by diminish 5y ago
Reddit has become another VC invested company where crippling features, dark patterns on forced "adoption" and dark "growth" hacks du jours are the norms.
I'm a very early and long term user, and I slowly moved away after "the" investment.
HN on the other hand is still safe, as the huge success of YC and their aim of gathering talent and readers gives more financial freedom. What if some investor now invests in HN, gathers a board, assigns a CEO with the profitability and "growth" target? I'm afraid to ask this, but the same could happen.
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- Santosh83 5y agoHN is too niche to milk for profitability like Reddit. Only relatively technical people hang out here and will probably move to, or setup, an alternative if HN gets sold out.
- Atlas-Marbles 5y ago"too niche...Only relatively technical people hang out here" Sounds like early reddit.
- RocketOne 5y agoAs long as HN doesnt focus on pics, gifs and TikTok garbage, it's probably safe from those who have a 1 millisecond attention span.
- AbrahamParangi 5y agoIf I could buy equity in HN I would do it in a heartbeat.
- insulanus 5y agoThe value of HN to YCombinator is keeping a large community of plugged-in and knowledgeable people on-tap. If there were any hint of commercializing HN, it would be clear as day that Ycombinator was now run by idiots. Everyone would flee faster than a jackrabbit from a pack of wolves.
- sedatk 5y ago> has become VC infested company FTFY.
- OrangeMusic 5y agoIf that happens, let's use Usenet?