Having been here 11 years now, IMHO HN is 90% as good as it was in 2011.
Reddit has lasted pretty well too because of it's ability to shard out bigger communities into ever smaller communities, but the larger subreddits are a bit creaky.
Reddit has lasted pretty well too because of it's ability to shard out bigger communities into ever smaller communities, but the larger subreddits are a bit creaky.
Then it was already very average.
Private? That's up to each of us.