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> Interesting that even at the time he was completely wrong. Within the past few months, I've started to see more low effort comment posting, submissions way o

> Interesting that even at the time he was completely wrong. Within the past few months, I've started to see more low effort comment posting, submissions way outside of what many thing HN on-topic to be, and I've flagged more submissions/comments in the past handful of days than I ever have. HN is becoming something like a proto-popular reddit. EDIT: Since the above sounds like doom-and-gloom for HN, I want to say it's great that more people can enjoy HN. I hope it stays (close) to it's original intent.

ajkjk 3y ago
I feel like I've heard people saying that about HN every month for the past 8 years and I've never observed any real pattern. Think there's just some observation bias going on: a website always seems like it's recently been worse than you remember, at any point in time, because you remember recent bad things but not further back ones.
ezekg 3y ago
That was likely due to the Reddit blackout. I'd imagine a lot of those users will go back to Reddit since HN generally doesn't appreciate shitposting.
Karrot_Kream 3y ago
HN has had a huge influx in users since December, probably a result of the Twitter ownership transition and the Reddit blackout. I tend to agree that a lot of the worse elements of those posting cultures are starting to leak through here and HN is starting to feel more like a generic tech subreddit but I'm not sure whether that'll be sustained or not.
- Noumenon72 3y ago
  How are you tracking the number of HN users over time?
  - Karrot_Kream 3y ago
    https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis
    - xp84 3y ago
      Whoa. What happened in December?
      - Noumenon72 3y ago
        Apparently something that quadrupled "How many text stories created per month?" but left all the other overview metrics unchanged.
    - lostmsu 3y ago
      Why do numbers in most voted and most stories look identical?

ajkjk 3y ago

I feel like I've heard people saying that about HN every month for the past 8 years and I've never observed any real pattern. Think there's just some observation bias going on: a website always seems like it's recently been worse than you remember, at any point in time, because you remember recent bad things but not further back ones.

ezekg 3y ago

That was likely due to the Reddit blackout. I'd imagine a lot of those users will go back to Reddit since HN generally doesn't appreciate shitposting.

Karrot_Kream 3y ago

HN has had a huge influx in users since December, probably a result of the Twitter ownership transition and the Reddit blackout. I tend to agree that a lot of the worse elements of those posting cultures are starting to leak through here and HN is starting to feel more like a generic tech subreddit but I'm not sure whether that'll be sustained or not.

Noumenon72 3y ago
How are you tracking the number of HN users over time?
- Karrot_Kream 3y ago
  https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis
  - xp84 3y ago
    Whoa. What happened in December?
    - Noumenon72 3y ago
      Apparently something that quadrupled "How many text stories created per month?" but left all the other overview metrics unchanged.
  - lostmsu 3y ago
    Why do numbers in most voted and most stories look identical?