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

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