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Very sad to see all the 'HN competitors' (lobsters, hackful, lamernews) are all essentially dead (at least extremely dormant). To me, all they needed were a sm
by polshaw 14y ago
Very sad to see all the 'HN competitors' (lobsters, hackful, lamernews) are all essentially dead (at least extremely dormant).
To me, all they needed were a small handful of dedicated posters/commenters (and to be open, i'm looking at you lobste.rs) to start to catch on; i'm very much reminded of the story of the reddit founders sockpuppeting to make the site not look like a ghost town; this kind of 'forced' activity doesn't seem to be necessary for long until the site would take on it's own life.
- polyfractal 14y agoLobsters isn't dead, just not as noisy. I check it once a day and usually walk away with one interesting tech article. Discussions are less lively, but that's because every site follows the 90:10 law (90% lurk, 10% comment)
- ampersandy 14y agoI totally agree. It would even be easy to find old, well-received HN submissions that have likely been forgotten and to queue them up for resubmission to your new service.
- unimpressive 14y agoOn a timescale, so that the site would be receiving at least one killer article from the past a day.