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I'm really just waiting for the next site - it's not that interesting to see mainstream sites being spammed over and over, and "power users" silently spewing ou

I'm really just waiting for the next site - it's not that interesting to see mainstream sites being spammed over and over, and "power users" silently spewing out submissions from the same 6 sites day in, day out. Worse than the stagnant content though is the pandering ... jesus. What will 42floors and a bunch of HN users write for us this week? How many times will people upvote TorrentFreak and TechDirt tomorrow when they publish their 17th "MegaUpload: It's Not Fair" piece? Someone quote PG, STAT! That search engine where they got rid of the top million sites ... I'd like to see a HN where the get rid of the top hundred or so sites and the people submitting them. It's just too boring with them here.

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dsowers 15y ago
I launched a new site yesterday that tries to solve this very problem. Briarpatch is a content discovery site which attempts to show higher-quality links (that aren't just 42 floors type links) by mining everyone's bookmark collections. Top-rated bookmarks rise to the top. I'd be delighted to hear what you think. http://briarpat.ch/hot http://briarpat.ch/hot Since people usually only bookmark things which they see as being suitable for a permanent spot in their local storage, we are hoping the quality on briarpatch will outshine some of these other content discovery sites.
cynicalkane 15y ago
This is it. HN does not have a narrow focus. If it had a narrow focus it would be easier, like on StackOverflow, where mods can kill any question that doesn't fit the narrow focus. But HN is supposed to be a community of things of broad interest to hackers. This is why I'm here, anyway. So every so often someone posts a "HN is dying because it posted article X which I personally don't like" and it gets upvoted. How annoying. I think this might be the HN substitute for having a downvote article button. If the community is dying, it's not because of a neat little story about a guy in a cab that a lot of hackers enjoyed.

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dsowers 15y ago

I launched a new site yesterday that tries to solve this very problem. Briarpatch is a content discovery site which attempts to show higher-quality links (that aren't just 42 floors type links) by mining everyone's bookmark collections. Top-rated bookmarks rise to the top. I'd be delighted to hear what you think. http://briarpat.ch/hot http://briarpat.ch/hot Since people usually only bookmark things which they see as being suitable for a permanent spot in their local storage, we are hoping the quality on briarpatch will outshine some of these other content discovery sites.

cynicalkane 15y ago

This is it. HN does not have a narrow focus. If it had a narrow focus it would be easier, like on StackOverflow, where mods can kill any question that doesn't fit the narrow focus. But HN is supposed to be a community of things of broad interest to hackers. This is why I'm here, anyway. So every so often someone posts a "HN is dying because it posted article X which I personally don't like" and it gets upvoted. How annoying. I think this might be the HN substitute for having a downvote article button. If the community is dying, it's not because of a neat little story about a guy in a cab that a lot of hackers enjoyed.