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HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.
by rockbruno 3y ago
HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.
- WillPostForFood 3y agoOr all the ppl missing Reddit are on HN to fill the need.
- shanefromfargo 3y agoWhat's up guys!? That's me. Really enjoying my time on HN so far. It reminds of what Reddit used to be like.
- melech_ric 3y agoI think you're being facetious here, but HN does have a more than passing resemblance to early Reddit. I remember reading Joel Spolsky's blog when he promoted Reddit. I jumped over for look and stayed. Threads and discussion were heavily tech focused. The format was a nice departure from slashdot, and there was a lack of digital "turf" wars. (Subreddits came along years later.) 16(?) years on - Reddit has metastisized into something different. I still enjoy parts of it, but it's definitely not the same beast it was in the beginning.
- sureglymop 3y agoLet's hope this place doesn't get overrun...
- elegylegacy 3y agoThat's literally why I'm here right now. I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative
- xattt 3y agoEternal June for HN begins…
- rthomas6 3y agoNah, floods of new users have come before. The lack of images, politics, and drama, combined with the "boring" design drives the undesirables away, leaving behind people who like talking about tech and other interests.
- bhtru 3y agoModeration is quality on HN too. The tech+(with some business) focused nature of the feed keeps folks off too. No memes here.
- avgDev 3y agoHN will always retain some of the new comers. I was first reddit user then HN. HN instantly brought me "old" internet nostalgia. Geeks just talking about things in a mostly open minded way. Lack of memes, politics and "boring" design will be all positives for some.
- RoyGBivCap 3y agoPolitics is very much on HN. It's a part of the same filter bubble as the rest of big tech: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg It's thinly veiled behind more passive aggressively written prose than reddit, but it's here. No images, I'll grant, but as someone mistaken for conservative by liberals and liberal by conservatives I can assure you it's very much political.
- whimsicalism 3y agoBegan with covid :)
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- moffkalast 3y agoIt seems pleasant at first, then you realize that 90% of comments on every post are cynical negativity and I'm not entirely sure if spending much time around here is a good thing because it'm starting to absorb it.
- esperent 3y agoYes, HN is a very cynical and negative place, and it's interesting how quickly I stop noticing that if I visit a few days in a row. But if I don't visit for a week and then come back, it's starkly obvious. It's also not exclusively negative and cynical, of course, and there are some great insights to be found here. I think you're being unfair with 90%. Maybe more like 70%?
- yannyu 3y agoIs there any tech-oriented forum that isn't largely cynical and negative? Is there any social media that isn't largely cynical and negative? I also notice how my mindset changes when I don't visit, which really just makes me think I should stop engaging in 90% of online discourse and discussion.
- moffkalast 3y agoFeels like reddit is at least has a larger percentage of memes and shitposting so there's less overall negativity, but there's also less substance.
- esperent 3y ago> Is there any tech-oriented forum that isn't largely cynical and negative Maybe no? I only know of two (not including subreddits): HN and Slashdot. And of the two, Slashdot is far, far, more negative, with the weird addition of American style republican political views. Which, as a European reader, makes it feel like a very right wing place. Are there any other forums I'm not aware of?
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- garciasn 3y agoI deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into. Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789
- norrland4ever 3y agoWhat is /. ?
- evandale 3y agoSlashdot https://slashdot.org https://slashdot.org I've started looking at that and arstechnica for my tech news replacements.
- mplanchard 3y agoslashdot.org
- deadcat 3y agoSlashdot website, which was once a massive tech discussion site.
- terrytwillstein 3y agoSlashdot.
- pixelatedindex 3y agoSlashdot, if I had to guess
- mjhagen 3y agoThis hurts.
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- shusaku 3y ago100 quick posts to this thread is good evidence if this
- philistine 3y agoExactly! Lots of people treating internet traffic like a on/off switch for each website. But ultimately the traffic is people, and people act like a liquid in large enough quantities. They flow in other directions.
- cvhashim04 3y agoYes
- 7speter 3y agoI came to see what was going on with reddit. If it was an outage or something.
- Permik 3y agoYou're absolutely correct.
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- js212 3y agoSame!
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- tacocataco 3y agoI'm here to find the next place to replace reddit. I appreciate yalls suggestions thus far. Reddit is on borrowed time, protest or not. No sense in getting attached to any particular site. The competition is just a few keystrokes away.
- iso1631 3y agoUnless HN is equally slow while logged out that's just HN being "really slow"
- slowmovintarget 3y agoHN is fairly snappy if you're logged out. Opening this thread in a private browsing mode showed content immediately.
- albert_e 3y agoyes I too noticed HN has become really slow in last 10-15 minutes
- gnicholas 3y agoYeah HN is taking ~5 seconds to load anything, and weirdly sometimes it shows that it's waiting on Algolia, even when I'm loading regular HN pages (not searching).
- bluedino 3y agoWould love more detailed information on the actual issues and fixes (if any) from the HN admins if they want to share.
- BoxOfRain 3y agoThe Lemmy instance I’m on has also slowed to a crawl.
- laurent123456 3y agoMany websites are having performance issues - https://downdetector.com https://downdetector.com It's as if Reddit had been taking the pressure off the rest of the internet all this time, and now that there's a blackout people actually starts working and visiting other websites
- redsaber 3y agothat would be funny, the traffic normally contain on Reddit will be redirect to other websites causing a chain of traffic issues to both Reddit and other websites
- sapiogram 3y agoHN tends to slow to a crawl every time Reddit is offline, because Redditors come here instead.
- DaSHacka 3y agoTruly unfortunate, perhaps there's value to be had with Reddit after all
- 13of40 3y agoConspiracy theory: Hacker news is actually just a thin layer of code with a subreddit as its back end.
- MuffinFlavored 3y agoNot anymore with the new increased API costs soon! /s
- djbusby 3y agoThis is known to be false.
- intj 3y agoSubreddit no, but do you ever check IPs of the websites you visit to see if they are hosted by Azure, AWS or some other CDN? I know I don't.
- gyanreyer 3y agoI was just looking at the documentation site for VSCode extensions and it was absolutely C R A W L I N G. As much as I love to clown on VSCode being slow, it definitely feels like I'm starting to see a pattern of degraded performance for a lot of sites.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoSaw a surge on https://bitecode.dev https://bitecode.dev as well and it's just a small blog so people must really get bored. Twitter doesn't seem affected though.
- noodlenotes 3y agoI'm having issues on every website I've tried. Spotify songs not downloading, Twitter images not loading, Google and CNN taking a few minutes to load.
- ilyt 3y agoIt seems to coincide with /r/programming getting set to private
- fundad 3y agoMaybe cloud flare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294750