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You know what? Improving HN is a waste of time. Why can't we just migrate to a better link aggregator, such as Reddit? It would basically fix everything (includ

You know what? Improving HN is a waste of time. Why can't we just migrate to a better link aggregator, such as Reddit? It would basically fix everything (including design, mobile friendliness, lack of good apps, lack of API, etc), at no cost. I'm sure it would be easier to convince Reddit to let subreddits behave like HN than trying to keep HN up to date with the modern world. Just my two cents.

tsm 14y ago
Having PG as a commenter, mod, and admin is a tremendous asset. HN also benefits from the close ties to YC in general--it'd be a bit tricky to tell all the YC folks that they need to post not on news.ycombinator.com but over at reddit.com/r/therealhackernews or whatever.
- phillmv 14y ago
  HN doesn't benefit from close ties to YC. YC benefits from close ties to HN. YC folks will post to whatever is considered the de rigeur nerd/startup news site, which over the last couple of years has become HN - having migrated from reddit (and slashdot, before). There will be another one, in due time.
- miguelrochefort 14y ago
  PG could do all those things on Reddit. YC folks could do all those things on Reddit. Just redirect news.ycombinator.com to reddit.com/r/hn2 and that's it.
sgdesign 14y ago
I'm not against of migrating to a "better" HN when the time has come, but I doubt it will be Reddit. I think it'll instead be something built from the ground up specifically for this community that serves its needs better than HN currently does. That being said, as someone who's working on this very thing I can say that developing a "Better HN" is far from easy… If you want another example, just look at Discourse (http://discourse.org http://discourse.org). I think it took them one year with a 5 or 6-people team to get there, and I didn't see anybody jumping ship from HN to a Discourse implementation yet.

tsm 14y ago

Having PG as a commenter, mod, and admin is a tremendous asset. HN also benefits from the close ties to YC in general--it'd be a bit tricky to tell all the YC folks that they need to post not on news.ycombinator.com but over at reddit.com/r/therealhackernews or whatever.

phillmv 14y ago
HN doesn't benefit from close ties to YC. YC benefits from close ties to HN. YC folks will post to whatever is considered the de rigeur nerd/startup news site, which over the last couple of years has become HN - having migrated from reddit (and slashdot, before). There will be another one, in due time.
miguelrochefort 14y ago
PG could do all those things on Reddit. YC folks could do all those things on Reddit. Just redirect news.ycombinator.com to reddit.com/r/hn2 and that's it.

sgdesign 14y ago

I'm not against of migrating to a "better" HN when the time has come, but I doubt it will be Reddit. I think it'll instead be something built from the ground up specifically for this community that serves its needs better than HN currently does. That being said, as someone who's working on this very thing I can say that developing a "Better HN" is far from easy… If you want another example, just look at Discourse (http://discourse.org http://discourse.org). I think it took them one year with a 5 or 6-people team to get there, and I didn't see anybody jumping ship from HN to a Discourse implementation yet.