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No. HN is good as it is and I find it disrespectful when newcomers are demanding changes like this. There's a good reason the forum has stayed the same for almo
by Kiro 1y ago
No. HN is good as it is and I find it disrespectful when newcomers are demanding changes like this. There's a good reason the forum has stayed the same for almost 20 years.
- pxc 1y agoTopic tags wouldn't kill HN.
- ivape 1y agoI don’t want the visual clutter.
- andybak 1y agogreasemonkey / custom css
- pxc 1y agoIf the main purpose of topic tags is to allow filtering and aggregation, the tags don't need to be that visible/prominent in the first place. I'm not saying this is the answer either, because I don't know if it's a great fit for HN, but managing and verifying such tags would fit well into somethingkme the ol' the moderation and Meta-moderation systems from Slashdot. (Using LLMs to generate initial topic tags once per article instead of having independent implementations burn up compute over it dynamically also seems like a way more reasonable way to use them toward this end.)
- ethbr1 1y ago> There's a good reason the forum has stayed the same for almost 20 years. You mean like when vote changing was added?
- bookofjoe 1y ago1. I joined in 2016. I guess it all depends on what the cutoff is for "newcomers." I suppose you could call anyone who signed on after 2007 a newcomer. 2. "demanding?" I wrote: >Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across. The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.
- NaOH 1y ago>The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me. Since you say this, I'm curious why you've also submitted about a dozen AI/LLM or adjacent articles in just the last two weeks. One was even a few hours before posting this Ask HN. That makes me think I'm not understanding something about your thinking.
- bookofjoe 1y agoYou make sense. In my ideal world there would be HNxAI and HN. I'd submit to both, and also regularly frequent each.
- c23gooey 1y agoThe UI might be the same but there's clearly been a lot of work done on the backend of the site in that time edit to add: Don't gatekeep by using the pejorative "newcomers". Unless you're PG there will always be someone who has been around here longer than you
- morgoths_bane 1y ago[dead]
- DeusExMachina 1y agoI would like to be able to filter topics I don't care about. My acocunt is older than yours so I guess my opinion holds more weight according to your metric.