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1) After a certain point you level max. There are loads of people here that I could learn a lot from, but the forum is greatly limited and becomes repetitive. T
by alex_c 17y ago
1) After a certain point you level max. There are loads of people here that I could learn a lot from, but the forum is greatly limited and becomes repetitive. The reason new members think that it's devolving is not that HN is changing, but that they themselves are learning.
That's a very interesting point, I never thought of it that way - but it feels right.
So what's the next level?
- GavinB 17y agoLonger conversations. A comment thread trailing out to the end of the page kills conversations. How to do this effectively is a largely unsolved problem. Blogs, forums, aggregators, etc each have their own strengths and weaknesses.