I'm mostly annoyed by the fleeting nature of the discourse here (also on Reddit). It's always on the back of my mind that I'm wasting my time here. At least on

I'm mostly annoyed by the fleeting nature of the discourse here (also on Reddit). It's always on the back of my mind that I'm wasting my time here. At least on reddit (which is generally even worse) you have notifications allowing you to carry on the conversation for a few weeks... If it wasn't for the quality of the community here I would have stopped returning to HN a long time ago. (What happened to my relation with Slashdot.)