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And they frown upon reddit for 'low-quality' content.

#2 post, my ass...

Face it, reddit won because it's objectively better with its lax moderation against this restricted garden.

I agree that moderation in any online forum tends to be antithetical to the objectives it aims for. Stackoverflow is another good example.

Do you mean Hacker News vs. Reddit in terms of popularity? HN deliberately tries not to be as popular as Reddit.

A few years ago HN was featured in a relatively popular publication, (TechCrunch maybe? I forget) and we flooded the front page with stories about Haskell (I'm pretty sure, or some other esoteric topic) to drive away any would be newcomers from that piece.

HN is trying to appeal to a particular type of demographic - people interested in computer science / programming and start ups.[1] The more you try to be all things to all people, the more you end up with the blandest content with the broadest appeal, like many of the more popular subreddits.

[1] Contrary to some people's beliefs, I don't think this means there should be stories only about computer science, programming, and startups, just that the stories should be interesting to people who find those things interesting. Of course, even among a similar group of people not everyone is going to agree what other things are interesting, but that's what we have the voting for.

Which cannot be said of Reddit :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews

>HN deliberately tries not to be as popular as Reddit.

No they/we don't. They might like to pretend that, because, after all, it's cool to be an "exclusive club". But this is just another internet forum that happens to have content you/I like.

See above about flooding the front page with Haskell stories. That was a real thing that happened. And yes there was a post from pg at the time actually asking people to make the site seem unappealing to newcomers until the traffic surge from TC died down. It is a very deliberate attempt to limit the growth rate to a manageable amount and maintain a certain type of culture.

It's not because we're an "exclusive" or "elite" club, it's just that with a broader community there would be a need to appeal to broader, more general interests that would eventually drive away the people who originally came here for the tech-business related content.

It was Erlang, not Haskell, but yes, pg asked user to do that, and they complied, a bit too literally (he meant Erlang as an example).

When was the last time when you had a civil discourse (without trolls derailing, spamming and trolling) on a major subreddit?

https://www.reddit.com/user/gear54/ you are free to decide what's what

Now that I think about it, even if something is 'derailed' (and you're not into it, being all serious and stuff), that branch is simply hidden. Something you can't do here.

> on a major subreddit?

That you realise that that's a necessary qualifier implies the solution. Yes, you're not going to have good quality discussion on a major/default subreddit. Unsubscribe from them and ignore them. There are a lot (iirc ~10^6) of subreddits, including many perfectly civil communities in there for various niches.

Apples/oranges?

Reddit caters to, essentially, everyone, by allowing users to create separate topic groups, while HN is a single collective forum for tech-y/science-y/thing-of-general-interest-y type news.

Reddit is shorthand for "subreddit or subreddits on this theme".

This place really doesn't look so different to r/programming+r/technology.

This is basically just a subreddit with really complicated permissions

I think it's rare to see "Reddit" used to refer specifically to a subreddit. The two words are distinct for a reason, after all.

And I have noticed that there is a 1-3 day lag from the front page of HN to the front page of /r/programming+/r/technology. My guess is most of the frequent contributors there see the content here on HN then repost it.

I prefer Man United over Rory McIlroy

I was waiting for this post. Or rather, I was hoping that the first "Open Issues" post would mention the number of closed issues or the total of all issues. Giving one random number of X is not very useful without some context. And if the context is in my mind, great. If it's not, I appreciate it when a poster gives that to me.

Please post this too.

GitHub has 880,159 open PRs (https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr)

GitHub has 12,558,530 closed PRs (https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed)

(sarcasm)

This is the type of content that appeals to the sterotypical HN user. Not clickbait, highly technical, very informative, potentially useful trivia.

It is absolutely boring for a normal person though.

Most commented issue: https://github.com/taolee/scalahooks/issues/1

Looks like someone went wild with the api

Well from this I learned that the maximum number of comments is 2,500.

Oh really? https://github.com/peej/to.uri.st/issues/128 is at 16k.

"If we spam ourselves we'll know which bugs are most serious and are sure to fix those" perhaps?

That was probably from before they enforced a limit.

By looking at that I'm thinking that maybe their spamming is the reason for the limit in the first place.

For the people who don't get the idea of the post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_the_glass_half_empty_or_hal...

Such a convenient way to see your issues mentioned in -> https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+thomasdavis+is%3Aopen

So for extra karma, someone can post this: https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen

This was posted only 3 hours ago as "GiHub has X open issues", and is still at the top of the front page. Why repost with the opposite title?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11578191

The number changes to between 21m - 18m on page reload

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