I’m sorry your experience has been negative, and I realize people are more on edge almost everywhere than they were three years ago. I haven’t noticed much cha

I’m sorry your experience has been negative, and I realize people are more on edge almost everywhere than they were three years ago. I haven’t noticed much change at HN, but then I tend to skim over the reactionary bits, and when I myself fail to be constructive I reliably get the karma hit I deserve. One topic on which I have noticed a lot of outright hostility is “crypto” — but part of why I come to HN is for the deep experience of many of its members, and that includes calling out intellectual dishonesty, so I don’t exactly weep for the 0.01% of Cryptolandia (including mine of course!) that is Legit. It looks to me like HN is still working as designed, in good and bad ways, and the good far outweighs the bad for my use case. I also think it would compare favorably to its competitors, but HN has become my /. so much that I don’t really check other industry aggregators/forums.