Ask YC: HN submissions feels like submissions on reddit post sale, do you guys feel the same way?
HN submissions feels like submissions on reddit after it was purchased by wired parent company. Do you guys feel the same way?
If this development persists, history dictates that the old regulars won't hang around for long, which is really sad.
It's such a pain in the ass to drift around the internet like nomads, leaving for new territory when the locusts come to consume the places you know and love..
For the record, I do my best: I submit new stories when I find them and produce (presumably) useful commentary. And it works, for now, but I'm not very hopeful as to what HN will look like in a year.
The other funny thing is that there is a well-known way to preserve the comunity - maintain very strict set of rules and punish all deviations by a singular authority (THE Moderator) and his minions. Fidonet used to work that way and it worked very well. It only fails when The Moderator loosens the grip for even short time - the place gets overrun and can not be taken back. The problem is that any moderator will have a moment of weakness and so Fidonet got entirely overrun in the end.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
i feel like reading the new links area is like reading my feed reader.
which is unavoidable, and what i do to combat it is submit more quality things when i can find them, and be picky with my modding things up.