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I joined HN few years ago, right away I felt 'these are my people'. The conversations are still pretty good for the most part but there is definitely a weird up
by avgDev 3y ago
I joined HN few years ago, right away I felt 'these are my people'. The conversations are still pretty good for the most part but there is definitely a weird uptick of low effort borderline trolling comments.
I am not sure what the stats are for the site but I wouldn't be surprised if there was significant growth and when communities expand you start getting average content and average users which can change the experience old timers expect. I have seen these occur in many niche subreddits that grew.
- diceduckmonk 3y agoI feel the the quality of HN discussions been downtrending, and recent months have personally felt disengaged. I’ve been wondering how much of this being the current tech market being a brain / time drain. I would have thought there would be a renaissance of startups and projects with layoffs and all, but maybe it’s far too early to tell
- fisf 3y agoIt also has to do with the people the startup scene attracts nowadays. 10 years ago, the majority of candidates for a tech startup qualified as 'builders', very broadly speaking. Now, a larger chunk want to work on 'product' and growth, with an immediate focus on financial upsides. And there is nothing wrong with that inherently, but this is a different (and I daresay, more conformist) culture.
- rgbgraph 3y ago[flagged]