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This is a social site too, and not much better than Reddit if at all - at least when I only consider the communities I "participated in" there. That said, I hav
by perching_aix 2y ago
This is a social site too, and not much better than Reddit if at all - at least when I only consider the communities I "participated in" there. That said, I have been thinking about quitting HN too several times, and I find it disappointing that there's no (easy) way to export my data from here.
Pretty unhappy about it as well. I have no real interest in physical socializing, but virtual socializing is slowly becoming untenable. Small communities (can) work OK, but anything at-scale is various degrees of rough. I just don't think natural language and the human experience can properly scale this large, and it shows.
- luckylion 2y agohttps://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/perching_aix.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/perching_aix.json... it's fairly easy to export your data. I find the quality level comes and goes on HN, but overall it's still much higher than anywhere else I've seen.
- perching_aix 2y agoMy expectation of easy is driven by what other social sites are required to provide by law: a button. I think we can agree that being able to consume an API is reasonably far from that, even if that API is straightforward. Good to know it's that straightforward though, I knew of the repo but was like eh, maybe next time, always the next time.