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Yes it has seemed to change quite rapidly in the last 12 months. I think Hacker News used to be mainly Start-Up, tech and business starters. Whereas now it is

by djt 14y ago

Yes it has seemed to change quite rapidly in the last 12 months. I think Hacker News used to be mainly Start-Up, tech and business starters. Whereas now it is mainly start-up porn.

jaytaylor 14y ago
Yes, thinking about the wave of change over the past year or so makes me sad. Even more sad are the periodic proposals to "improve" (i.e. fix) HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042403 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042403 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488561 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488561 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404718 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404718 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554 And PG randomly chimes in throughout.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 And then there is the complaining: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747 None of these things seem to be working very well. They may alleviate a portion of the pain temporarily, but the baseline level of quality throughout the community still feels way off to me compared to what I see in the old threads. As a sidenote, I like the explanations in this post about why digg, reddit, and slashdot went sour: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178514 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178514
- djt 14y ago
  interesting! i saw this in one of the posts: http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic looks like a good intermediate step.
ahlatimer 14y ago
This sentement has come up semi-frequently in the past (almost) four years I've been a member of the site, and I lurked for months prior to creating an account. From my perspective, the site has trended towards mass appeal, but not at a very quick pace. The articles on the front page today aren't all that different from the ones I remember being on there four years ago. The level of discourse ebs and flows. Sometimes it's really good; other times it isn't.

by djt 14y ago

Yes it has seemed to change quite rapidly in the last 12 months. I think Hacker News used to be mainly Start-Up, tech and business starters. Whereas now it is mainly start-up porn.

jaytaylor 14y ago

Yes, thinking about the wave of change over the past year or so makes me sad. Even more sad are the periodic proposals to "improve" (i.e. fix) HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042403 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042403 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488561 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488561 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404718 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404718 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554 And PG randomly chimes in throughout.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 And then there is the complaining: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747 None of these things seem to be working very well. They may alleviate a portion of the pain temporarily, but the baseline level of quality throughout the community still feels way off to me compared to what I see in the old threads. As a sidenote, I like the explanations in this post about why digg, reddit, and slashdot went sour: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178514 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178514

djt 14y ago
interesting! i saw this in one of the posts: http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic looks like a good intermediate step.

ahlatimer 14y ago

This sentement has come up semi-frequently in the past (almost) four years I've been a member of the site, and I lurked for months prior to creating an account. From my perspective, the site has trended towards mass appeal, but not at a very quick pace. The articles on the front page today aren't all that different from the ones I remember being on there four years ago. The level of discourse ebs and flows. Sometimes it's really good; other times it isn't.