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The entire internet is the long tail. Heck, HN is a pretty long long tail! I sometimes wish we could go back in time to when you could only reach people by lan
by baxtr 3y ago
The entire internet is the long tail. Heck, HN is a pretty long long tail!
I sometimes wish we could go back in time to when you could only reach people by landline and there were only two TV channels.
- bmacho 3y agoHN is the antithesis of the long tail, it provides a very short, fixed length tail (~50 topics for 24 hours, and everything repeated), and the classic shared experience which literally disappeared from the world in the past few years. (Okay, every niche is a short tail in a long tail, still.)