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> Most of the people I know in Technology(tm) have not only stopped reading HN, but also derisively refer to it as The Orange Hellsite, because the quality of c
by username332211 3y ago
> Most of the people I know in Technology(tm) have not only stopped reading HN, but also derisively refer to it as The Orange Hellsite, because the quality of comments is often consistently worse than Reddit for comparable topics, these days.
That's very unlikely. This website has not implemented the features that continuously make Reddit worse as time goes by - self-segregated communities and extensive down voting.
- renewiltord 3y agoI just went to a random front page thread on /r/homelab (a subreddit I know well) https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1922ddn/since_no_one_makes_a_rack_mount_cable_modem_i/ https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1922ddn/since_no_o... You can read for yourselves and see the difference between that and this. Here's the same post as this on /r/aviation https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/13k43rj/meet_the_x65_darpas_new_plane_has_no_external/ https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/13k43rj/meet_the_... For every reddit comment there R, you can find a distinct comment here H, such that H is worse than R. There's just way more informed expertise on Reddit. The big advantage of HN is that some tech luminaries post here. But the overall quality is much lower than the topic-reddits. It's more like an /r/technology.
- mrintegrity 3y agoYour aviation example is not good, that reddit thread is rife with memes and "in jokes", very little informed discussion that I can see.
- renewiltord 3y agoYeah but it is still true that for every R there, there is a distinct H here that is worse.