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The contest between reddit and pg heats up...

• pg 19y ago
  It's not a contest. We don't want News.YC to be popular. We don't want to deal with heavy server loads or spam or any of the other schleps that come with popularity. The ideal thing for us would be to have the 10,000 best hackers and no one else.
  • aston 19y ago
    Interesting. I admit I hadn't heard it from you directly, but my impression was that news.yc was shooting to bring the old school reddit back to the world. I assumed the reddits are trying to do the same. If they're shooting for popularity and you're shooting for goodness, I guess there's no competition, but I think a lot of people see the sites at odds with each other.
    • pg 19y ago
      We're trying to hit a point reddit passed through on the way to becoming more popular, but then stay there. I don't know what the reddits' goals are for this new version, but I assume it's not to make the site less popular. And if they have a big, mainstream audience, that will inevitably affect both the stories and the comments.
      • yters 19y ago
        What are your thoughts on combining the programming subreddit and this site?
• budu3 19y ago
  I wonder if the reddits take kindly to hacker news tapping into and possibly taking away one of their key demographic audience.
  • aston 19y ago
    If the audience of this site is 10k like pg says, they can't be worried at all. They probably wouldn't even care if it were 100k, ultimately, since they're shooting for the millions.