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Man HN was a different place back then. People sharing ideas and getting constructive (even if comically wrong) feedback. It reads more like founders and hack
by arealaccount 4mo ago
Man HN was a different place back then. People sharing ideas and getting constructive (even if comically wrong) feedback. It reads more like founders and hackers helping each other. The discussions lately are more like folks armchair analyzing or speculating companies that are already incumbent tech giants.
Or maybe I just click those headlines at a higher rate..
- brittlepeanut 4mo ago[flagged]
- supern0va 4mo agoAnd yet, it somehow has significantly better conversations than most places online. Maybe on par with reddit 10-15 years ago. It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations, particularly for general tech.
- ricardobayes 4mo agoYes, although unfortunately the only problem with it, there's no way to contribute to older topics in a meaningful way. Due to the nature of this format not even the original author checks old comments and absolutely no chance any new conversation sparks out of it.
- supern0va 4mo ago>Due to the nature of this format not even the original author checks old comments and absolutely no chance any new conversation sparks out of it. Sometimes I wonder if the format actually helps. I suspect that when you know you can pretend you didn't see a reply to your comment, you feel less likely to need to defend yourself when you realize you might be wrong. You can just close the tab and, since there was no notification, just move on without the ego hit.
- jsbisviewtiful 4mo ago> It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations Yeah I used to learn so much across quite a few forums. Most of those communities are dead, dying, filled with bots or filled with people making shit up/just posting lousy jokes now. A lot of folks have jumped to Discord, which frankly, isn't for me, so feeling a bit lost on where to surf these days
- brittlepeanut 4mo agoCandidly, I'd argue that it doesn't. It has a style that allows people to _pretend_ they're having substantive conversation, but it's mostly just people blathering in a distinct style without ever listening.
- malfist 4mo agoSays an account 13 minutes old.
- nathanmills 4mo agoWow, that means 13 minutes ago must've been the first time they've ever used the site
- s_dev 4mo agoAccount age is a legit parameter when evaluating the worthiness comments especially how easy it is for bots to make comments now.
- nathanmills 4mo agoThey seem pretty human to me.
- brittlepeanut 4mo agoProbably because I am. But it doesn't matter. Another thing that's worse about HN is that you can now accuse anybody who posts things you dislike of being a bot. It's unsurprising that Sean, who posts several times a day, is eager to dismiss my criticism of non-value-addding posting addicts.
- antinomicus 4mo agoYeah, what? Increasingly worried this site is bots talking to bots.
- brittlepeanut 4mo agoI don't even know my old account's password.