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is dang pushing changes and such on his own? sounds like it is run by one guy
by pastor_bob 4y ago
is dang pushing changes and such on his own?
sounds like it is run by one guy
- sillysaurusx 4y agoHN will be around a hundred years. I think it's more than just a forum. We've seen lots of people coordinate during disasters, for example. Dan and his team do a good job running it. (I'm not a part of it.) EDIT: My response was based on some edits that are now removed.
- rat9988 4y agoYou are overstimating HN way too much.
- nominusllc 4y agoA hundred years, I give it 10 tops.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoIt’s already been around since 2007. How many decades does HN need to be around before people realize it’s an institution?
- grepfru_it 4y agoSlashdot has been around since 1997 and people still rave about its moderation system today. However, while I have high hopes for HN, it could very well go the way of digg overnight
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- GekkePrutser 4y agoI doubt that though. Digg was hyped way too much and the inevitable decline that comes after a hype killed it. Some things are good enough to survive that phase but Digg wasn't. HN never had a hype phase, just slow but strong & steady growth. And not growing too much either. It seems the perfect circumstances to really last. It doesn't have an invasive business model, or investors screaming for ROI either. That's the kind of thing that often leads to user-hostile changes that so often start the decline into oblivion. Also, I would imagine it's pretty cheap to host, after all it's all very simple text, I don't think it hosts any pictures beside the little Ycombinator logo in the corner :)
- pmoriarty 4y agoChange of ownership is inevitable, as people don't live forever. When that happens, if the new owners aren't interested or motivated to keep funding HN, it could easily go the way of the dodo. Hopefully archive.org is involved in archiving HN, though unfortunately archive.org's future itself is in jeopardy.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago> though unfortunately archive.org's future itself is in jeopardy. How so?? This is the first I've heard of it.
- pmoriarty 4y agoIt's truly tragic how few people have heard of this. We should be doing all we can to raise awareness of this lawsuit before it's too late. Here are some relevant links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31703394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31703394 https://decrypt.co/31906/activists-rally-save-internet-archive-lawsuit-threatens https://decrypt.co/31906/activists-rally-save-internet-archi... https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17211300/hachette-book-group-inc-v-internet-archive/?order_by=desc https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17211300/hachette-book-...
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- jethro_tell 4y agoThe reason it's an institution is because it hasn't been bought by some corp trying to squeeze value out of eyeballs, which is why it hasn't really changed much. However, it takes money and time to keep it around in a not for profit way, so it will be an institution as long as it's funding is the same.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoYeah I really hope that if Ycombinator ever wants to pull out, that they don't sell it but let the community pull together to support it. I'd gladly donate to keep it running as it is. It would be even better if they just keep doing it as they are though <3
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoConsidering the hardware it's running on, it wouldn't cost much to keep it running.
- jethro_tell 4y agoMore the labor I'd assume. Development to continue scaling, maintenance and moderation.
- nunez 4y agoit would be super ironic if reddit acquired it somehow
- jacquesm 4y agoWhat makes you think that? That's just a tweet from an unrelated account.
- pastor_bob 4y agoNevermind, I thought the OP ran that twitter account
- swyx 4y agotheres two people fulltime on it but dang appears to be both DBA and SRE
- openthc 4y agoAnd Mod; hope he gets three cheques
- dang 4y agoI push changes on my own all the time, but the work of getting HN running again today was overwhelmingly done by my brilliant colleague mthurman.