This wasn't my experience. Hacker News felt surprisingly welcoming as soon as I upped the depth and reduced the opinion. There are some areas I noticed Hacker

This wasn't my experience. Hacker News felt surprisingly welcoming as soon as I upped the depth and reduced the opinion. There are some areas I noticed Hacker News isn't very interested in, such as web accessibility (other platforms picked that up much better), but I think that has more to do with the not-as-exciting subject than the writer/blog.