HN is growing, and with growth comes a dilution of focus. Inevitably there will be subsets of the community who feel their needs aren't being met on HN.

For example, if HN has 99 employees for every one founder, what do you think will happen if you try to discuss how to set up options and vesting such that in a liquidity event, the employees are still bound to the company and won't quit when they discover they have new bosses?

You aren't going to get the same conversation as if you just discuss the question with other founders. I'm not saying the HN discussion will be less valuable, but can we agree that some conversations will be different?