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He seems convinced that /. was the last great success in tech news and there will never be another to replace it. What makes you think so? Why would someone c
by pohl 13y ago
He seems convinced that /. was the last great success in tech news and there will never be another to replace it.
What makes you think so? Why would someone convinced of such things say the following:
"Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now." -Rob Malda
(Taken from TFA.)
- iblaine 13y agoRead the entire article. In it he praises hackernews then says it needs to filter to top 10 items, as slashdot did. He says twitter is fundamentally broken. He says reddit is too big.
- pohl 13y agoI did read that, I agree with him on those points, I think HN is a great success in tech news, and I don't think these views are contradictory.
- donjigweed 13y agoHN just needs a buffer/digest, so you only see posts that spend some time on the front page. http://eplenum.com/news?days=.1 http://eplenum.com/news?days=.1 posts that have been on the front page in the last 2.5 hours http://eplenum.com/news?days=1 http://eplenum.com/news?days=1 posts that have been on the front page in the last day .... http://eplenum.com/news?q=slashdot&sort=lastUpdate,desc http://eplenum.com/news?q=slashdot&sort=lastUpdate,desc