Yeah the old refrain that the Redditification of HN is an illusion[0] becomes less true with each passing year. Communities obviously change with time, but the

Yeah the old refrain that the Redditification of HN is an illusion[0] becomes less true with each passing year. Communities obviously change with time, but the Covid era and the tumult with Reddit really did a number on this one. As a postscript, the comments linked in the "illusion" claim of the guidelines are very interesting. Several of them are pointing out distinctly un-HN like behavior, though others point out things that have already become normalized on HN. The frog is boiled slowly. [0] "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." -- last guideline at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html