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It was for that, but it's caliber has definitely lightened over the years. Compare: http://web.archive.org/web/20080123104208/http://reddit.com/r/programming h

• cubicle67 17y ago
  agreed, although it seems to have not deteriorated to the same degree and the main Reddit
• johnnybgoode 17y ago
  Ah, that's not surprising. Thanks.
• sjf 17y ago
  Gosh, I remember reading those stories on progreddit that day. I was beginning to wonder if I had just imagined the decline in quality or if instead my tastes had just changed considerably. All the haskell, lisp, FP, compsci stories are gone, the comments are complete drivel. I rarely see a story that is worth reading (and I read reddit compulsively several times a day). I think a lot of the blame can be placed on including progreddit on the main page when the subreddits were introduced. Suddenly there were a lot of non-programmers on progreddit. To the OP, yes I would like to see a hacker version of hackernews.