Why do people use Hacker News, why not Reddit?

9 points·shivajikobardan··15 comments

What's here that's not in reddit?

1) Better UI

2) Higher quality content

3) Higher quality posters

If I want to discuss my hobbies or other subjects I use Reddit (specifically old.Reddit.com).

If I want higher quality content and to read news about my profession I come here.

I’m a member of several programming subs and other places like stackoverflow are still generally better for asking programming questions and receiving higher quality answers.

Because the Reddit UI is an unusable mess. At least HN interface makes sense.

Also, HN is crazy fast to load and doesn’t need JavaScript.

I could find pretty much everything I like about HN somewhere on Reddit – somewhere within the ocean of memes, dumb jokes, teenage wisdom, crap. I don't have the stomach for it.

Reddit is just a mess, there nothing make sense.

I do use reddit. I find there are more high quality comments on Reddit than here, by a large margin. Perhaps not as a percentage of comments, but the raw number of quality comments is much higher.

I would be very curious as to which subs you subscribe to.

Across all subreddits, though? HN is a single channel.

I don't use all subreddits. I refer only to those I do use.

Plenty of people here use both HN and Reddit, and even 4chan/8chan. I'd suspect users who only use HN exclusively are in the minority.

One reason: reddit is the worst and earliest when it comes to device fingerprinting abuse.

HN has abstained from that altogether afaik.

Which reddit? There’s not one that’s an exact match

Better moderation.

Because of what is not here, I use HN.

UI and Content

No advertising.

The civility.

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