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HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techla
by 0xCE0 2y ago
HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland.
I love the near-non-BS nature of it. And even though the techland changes, HN itself has had very little change, so it acts somewhat safe stable ground/forum/club for observing the ever changing techland. Although I recognize there is somewhat minimal degration in comment quality (less professional pragmatic comments over the years, at least so I feel), it still trumps every other alternative there is.
So, thank you PG/HN, and of course the HN community that makes most of it.
PS. I have been read-only mode for the past ~15y (and there was nothing valuable for me to comment on anything), but now I created account and this is my first comment :)
- cobbaut 2y ago> HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I bet a lot of people here would say the same thing about Slashdot ten to fifteen years ago. @HN: Thanks and please don't change.
- echelon 2y agoHN has outlasted Slashdot by a wide margin at this point. IIRC, Slashdot stopped being great around the same time as the decline of the Digg era. It started to sink in quality around 2007, which gave it ten years at most of being a central part of the online tech community (1997 - 2007). I started reading HN in 2008. It's lasted nearly twenty years as an incredible community. Here are some graphs: https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/01/slashdot-fail.html https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/01/slashdot-fail.html
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- SLHamlet 2y agoLOL thanks for the link!
- redox99 2y agoYou visit every day for 15 years and never left a comment? That's kinda crazy. It makes me wonder if this is actually common and we don't realize.
- mamurphy 2y agoI remember reading a stat on reddit that 10% of users upvote and 1% of users comment. So if my memory is (near) accurate, that's very common behavior.
- dredmorbius 2y agoThe 90-9-1 rule, which is common across many mass-participation media modalities, not just online. <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=90-9-1_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=90-9-1_rule>
- deadbabe 2y agoIf you comment once on HN you are easily in the top 5% of users by comment count.
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- mezi 2y agoSame here. I have been reading this site for 10 years and even though it got a bit worse, it's still the best source out there. Keep it up everyone.
- simonebrunozzi 2y agoMe, too. It took you a little while to make that jump. How do you explain it?