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The decline of r/programming with regard to quality of links and discussions was probably inevitable.
by ExpiredLink 13y ago
The decline of r/programming with regard to quality of links and discussions was probably inevitable.
- thenmar 13y agoIt does seem to be the blind leading the blind much more than in other forums.
- lazyjones 13y agoThis is probably related to SO and the later rise of HN in that area as well.
- Kiro 13y agoI just had a look and the submissions were very similar to the front page on HN. Are you exaggerating or do you think the quality has gone down here as well?
- code_duck 13y agoI think that actually, most of the submissions there come from the front page of HN.
- sehr 13y agoThe submissions are nearly identical on any given day. The discussions? Not so much. Not saying HN comment threads are the pinnacle of discourse, but they are an order of magnitude better than proggit's.
- oinksoft 13y agoBefore Hacker News was popular, you tended to be able to go to proggit for breaking news and large discussions. Being less popular, HN had smaller discussions and stories took longer to rotate out. There was much more focus on startups and California things, much less on infosec. Proggit now seems to have been reduced to an HN mirror, but HN is something else too.
- troebr 13y agoI used to read r/programming a lot, but eventually ended up reading hacker news for this kind of news. I would not be surprised if you could match r/programming decline in popularity with a rise in popularity of HN.