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>I keep seeing threads on HN about Gmail alternatives. I’m not sure if anybody else noticed this but every week or every other week there’s the same thread abo
by outime 5y ago
>I keep seeing threads on HN about
Gmail alternatives. I’m not sure if anybody else noticed this but every week or every other week there’s the same thread about alternatives. Sure I can flag it but I don’t get it, the suggestions are always exactly the same, no difference whatsoever. Is it so that people just don’t like to use the search function?
- Klonoar 5y agoHN has fallen into a bit of a rut on a few topics lately, e.g: - macOS “failing” and Linux on the desktop - Mozilla and Firefox death spiral - Electron and yearning for native applications - And the aforementioned topic here That said, for the most part it’s really only one at a time on the front page so it’s easy to skip if you wanted to. As to why this phenomenon exists, I dunno. Reddit has the same problem, though I think it’s more pronounced there due to scale.
- sam0x17 5y ago"The year of the Linux Desktop" is sort of an in-meme that transported to HN over from Slashdot and has been around since the very early 00s. Nothing to see here on that one -- every year is the "year of the linux desktop"
- Klonoar 5y agoI mean, I agree with you - I was on /. way back in the day, and was a writer for Linux.com. I've lived the meme. :) My point (which might be better re-worded) is that I've noticed it's picked up more on HN in the past year. No idea why.
- sam0x17 5y agoWell slashdot has editors. HN is all upvoting without real editorial selection going on, so instead of seeing the regularly scheduled yearly "year of the linux desktop" post you'll see it 2-3 times a month because it's a popular idea and many are still encountering it for the first time (given how rampant mac use has become in the dev community)
- lsferreira42 5y agoAnd shell script, there is a sudden interest in shell scripting here last month
- dang 5y agoHmm - not so many big threads as far as I can tell, although there was a major one in the last year. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=comments%3E10%20Gmail%20Alternative&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- jsnell 5y agoIn the last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725018 And the fairly related discussions, where the original topic was not asking for recommendations, but that was what a lot of the discussion ended up about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30248203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30248203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29997776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29997776 For one month, that is starting to feel quite repetitive.
- dang 5y agoAh, that's where they all were :) Good point!
- kgwxd 5y agoI've been on this site for 11 years, your mention of a search function baffled me. I see it now.
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoIt has bad discoverability because of its placement. I am sure placing it on top would seemingly be an obvious resolution here but looking at the age of HN, I feel @dang must have had some reasons for it to not be on top already.