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This is cool but please HN do not ever start implementing this. Digg was once exactly like hacker news until they screwed it up by making the homepage differen
by jakejake 15y ago
This is cool but please HN do not ever start implementing this. Digg was once exactly like hacker news until they screwed it up by making the homepage different for every user, thus killing the feeling of a shared experience for us users.
Even though it's not always fair, even though you have to wade through stories, the fact that there is a common home page is what spurs the discussion and keeps things interesting.
This community is exactly how I remember digg in its heyday. Mostly tech stories and one common home page that has some bit of prestige when your story reached it. That's the magic sauce.
- dangrossman 15y agoDigg was supplanted by reddit, a site where the homepage is different for every user.
- redslazer 15y agoBy user choice though and not some random filter.
- jakejake 15y agoI didn't know that. I'm not a hardcore redit user though. I still feel like HN is more like the "good old days" of digg when it was mostly tech. Reddit is cool but it has a more mass appeal with its topics.
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