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A bunch of profanity laced name calling, derision, and even some blame directly at the user base. It feels like a Reddit shitpost. Your claim is as generalized
by dannersy 2y ago
A bunch of profanity laced name calling, derision, and even some blame directly at the user base. It feels like a Reddit shitpost. Your claim is as generalized and un-scientific as mine, but if it makes you feel better, I'll say it _feels_ like this wouldn't fly even a couple years ago.
- diggan 2y agoIt's just been said for so long that either HN always been on the decline, or people have always thought it been in decline... This comes to mind: > I don't think it's changed much. I think perceptions of the kind you're describing (HN is turning into reddit, comments are getting worse, etc.) are more a statement about the perceiver than about HN itself, which to me seems same-as-it-ever-was. I don't know, however. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40735225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40735225 You can also browse some results for how long dang have been responding to similar complaints to see for how long those complaints have been ongoing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20hn%20turning%20into%20reddit&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...