I'm on HN for about 2 years now, but I spend a considerable amount of time on old posts via algolia. I've heard the claim you brought up a couple of time recent

I'm on HN for about 2 years now, but I spend a considerable amount of time on old posts via algolia. I've heard the claim you brought up a couple of time recently and it doens't match my experience. This is not about whether or not things are good as they are, but if they were better in the past. And my perception is, that the overall tone has gotten better over the time. I often stumble across unfriendly and cynical comments on those old threads which I feel like would be light light grey really fast these days. But this is very subjective, I guess. From my observation, nowadays there is a bigger share of threads that aren't tech-related. Maybe this brings in a different kind of people (like myself) who lower the quality of the tech-related stuff. Just a thought...