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I am not sure but I think what has gone unspoken here is the recent decline in quality of content on this site. Perhaps this is why he's concerned?
by htsh 17y ago
I am not sure but I think what has gone unspoken here is the recent decline in quality of content on this site. Perhaps this is why he's concerned?
- tlrobinson 17y agoI think the quality of Hacker News is sort of like Escher's "Ascending and Descending" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending_and_Descending http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending_and_Descending). People perpetually talk about how the quality is going down, when in reality it's not changing much at all. I attribute it to the "honeymoon effect". New users are excited when they first find HN, but eventually the amazement wears off, even though the site hasn't changed.
- philwelch 17y agoHN is good, but not perfect. It's disillusioning for a new user to go through a bad day or a bad few days on HN, and people react to disillusionment. That might be another factor.
- htsh 17y agoI like the comparison though I also like the wave pattern. For example, weekends are definitely worse than weekdays.
- TheSOB88 17y agoPossibly - but don't deny that this stuff doesn't happen. You may have been around for Reddit, and that's most definitely changed for the worse since when I started there (I've since quit). Turning into Digg and all that.
- htsh 17y agoReddit is still a fantastic place for discussion. Also it arguably has a better interface i.e. orange mailbox, saved links, etc. Perhaps not for startup stuff, but for politics & pop culture I think Reddit continues to do as good a job as anyone. Also, its tough to criticize Reddit with a blanket statement considering there are many independently moderated subreddits (arguably including this very site).