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Ask HN: What was your “honeymoon phase” with HN?

5 pointsdiceduckmonk10 comments

How has your relationship with HN change over time? How long did the "honeymoon phase" last, if it was ever over?

Once I read more of Dang's moderation comments I realized how deeply he cares about HN. He takes time to explain his view point (which can also change over time), he answers emails, he develops new features to fight spam. I value that more than changing the website layout, dark-mode, font-size.

Examples

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310804

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15151627

Only thing I think they should implement proper responsive design so that you can have the width of the window less than 800px or whatever without getting overflow. I think at around 500px it switches to mobile view, so there's a gap in between when you have a horizontal scroll bar.

I suppose my honeymoon phase was when I was learning Ruby and a lot more articles about it were being upvoted. It was a great source of information and the comments a window into the assumptions that I would need to learn to either adopt or empathize with.

These days there are so many nice language- and domain-specific roundup newsletters that I mainly enjoy HN for the odd technical stories I never expected to read that day. I also enjoy watching dang moderate; he is gifted.

I’m still in the honeymoon phase with Ruby, by the way.

I still like it. I think there's some glaring flaws. HN seems to glass cannon - it's probably top 0.1% in tech, but below average in a lot of things. You find the topics where Sturgeon's Law kicks in and stay far away from them.

Reading HN since 2009 even though I created an account in 2012 (wow, a decade now). I don't think much has changed for me as far as HN is concerned. Wouldn't call it honeymoon phase since it is permanent :)

Been here for many years, and I love it more and more. It's probably the smartest thing you can read online.

I have been reading HN for 15 years. Only site that's worth reading every day.

Honeymoon continuing for me since day 1. This is the best SNR on the internet.

Either there wasn't one for me, or I'm still in it.

The best SNR.

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