I don't know, curation is hard. I think that 90% of what I read is average at best. Newspapers quality has been going downhill really fast with the shift to di

I don't know, curation is hard. I think that 90% of what I read is average at best. Newspapers quality has been going downhill really fast with the shift to digital first, the pressure to generate clicks and the ongoing move to video content. My few journalist friends lament that they can't do their job properly anymore. Long form is probably the last remnant of genuine quality in the field. Aggregation platforms tend to work quite poorly. If I'm honest I mostly come to Hacker News to mindlessly waste time and because watching a virtual tally rises feels good to me. Encountering interesting and unexpected links happen but are rarely and I have a hard time remembering the last time I had a trully insightful conversation. Meanwhile, Reddit target demographic skews quite young and the time of life where I enjoyed having long winded discussions with students convinced they are experts is far behind me now. I think there is a place for a well curated feed. They will live or die by how good it is however and the applications that came before like FlipBoard don't inspire confidence in the viability of the idea.