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You might already be posting on it :)
by AndrewOMartin 4y ago
You might already be posting on it :)
- mort96 4y agoNo? HN is not in any way, shape or form a replacement for Reddit.
- 0dayz 4y agoEh, HN is very much like reddit /r/technology + /r/programming but without fancy editor.
- AlecSchueler 4y agoMore like Reddit in the days before subreddits.
- moffkalast 4y agoWell it actually IS what reddit used to be. It's almost a carbon copy of the early versions before subreddits were a thing, though HN has slightly worse css and usability, presumably to keep out the normies and to make it run from that one raspberry pi that ycombinator has allocated to hosting it. I do sorta wish HN had reply notifications.
- moehm 4y ago> I do sorta wish HN had reply notifications. There is a 3rd party app for that, though I haven't tried it yet. https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/
- lproven 4y agoI use it. It's excellent and works well. The only problem with it is that it does not send you replies to your submissions, e.g. AskHN posts.
- robjan 4y agoIt's by design to make flame wars harder to sustain
- moffkalast 4y agoI'd believe that if it wasn't computationally intensive and HN wasn't already struggling under the 5 people that visit. I'm sure it's merely this way to reduce server load.
- robswc 4y agoI personally use it as my reddit replacement ;) But I agree.
- gryn 4y agoFYI both Ycombinator and reddit have the same age, both were created in 2005 according to Wikipedia. It kinda weird because for some reason in my mind Ycombinator was 5 year-ish older.