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The greatest opportunity for improving HN lies with us, not with the site. Here's a good place to start: http://edweissman.com/how-to-participate-in-hacker-ne

• Domenic_S 14y ago
  That's quite a statement. On a scale from "terrible" to "ideal", the discussion on HN is a lot, lot closer to ideal than the UI/experience is: UNKNOWN OR EXPIRED LINK C'mon, this is 2013... paging dynamic results shouldn't be an issue. What makes HN great does lie with us, but I strongly disagree that it's also the greatest opportunity for improvement.
  • alaskamiller 14y ago
    Maybe you weren't around awhile so you don't know the backstory. Link expiration is partly because the servers back then wasn't able to keep up with datascraping, for example when we made the only useable search engine for a few years.
• jfb 14y ago
  Also, if the community is moving away from you (as is happening to me here), don't fight it; don't whinge; find the good discussions you still feel like contributing to, and let it go. Internet discussion sites and their communities are ephemeral, and to deny that is futile.
• tikhonj 14y ago
  One thing I think more people should do is post contact info in their profiles. Remember, the email field doesn't get displayed! And, of course, people should be more willing to contact each other outside of comments for whatever reason. I've had some very interesting, protracted side conversations from HN and they've all been great. That's also how I've met some very interesting people and seen some very interesting companies. EDIT: Oh hey, reading through your linked post, it seems you have that exact point there, and I was just paraphrasing you. As you can guess, I agree with it wholeheartedly :P.
• pasbesoin 14y ago
  Hey, Ed, as an aside, are you going to be migrating your posts out of Posterous? (Which is, as we all know by now, closing.)
  • pasbesoin 14y ago
    (The post Ed links to is hosted by Posterous -- with a custom domain. Thus my question.)