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I got on reddit around 2007, left in about 2011. The quality of discussion has fallen so badly that the site is unusable for comments. Before, it was irregular
by epa 13y ago
I got on reddit around 2007, left in about 2011. The quality of discussion has fallen so badly that the site is unusable for comments. Before, it was irregular to see a sentance with less than 5 words, now, these quick comments rule the top karma ladders.
It is interesting to see how a community that is small, gains popularity over time and quality degrades. User generated media especially seems to normalize to a generic trend. Look at Digg, the same thing happened, and users went over to reddit.
This is actually one of my fears about hacker news, as currently the discussion is very intelligent and useful.
- obstacle1 13y agoThere are some decent subs still, and they're universally ones with a low subscriber count. I'd bet that the vast majority of these "6% of US adults" stick to default subs and the front page, which are as you describe.
- halo 13y agoI'd argue HN has seriously degraded over the last year or so, with masses on articles containing low-quality shallow content, including endless stories about the NSA and Bitcoin, burying any interesting in-depth content. This has come to a head over the past few weeks where I'm finding the site nearly unreadable. I'm not really sure where to go to find high quality content anymore.