There used to be a lot of content about design and blogging, with lots of content you'd find 4 pages deep on HN/new. I recently went back and it seems like acti

There used to be a lot of content about design and blogging, with lots of content you'd find 4 pages deep on HN/new. I recently went back and it seems like activity stopped except for a small few. Did something anger the community or did things just degrade over time?