Hello, this post actually made me make a post of my own.

I think you can have your cake and eat it here.

If you filter HN with uBlock Origin to remove topics and sources you are not interested in, i.e. non-technical ones in my case, probably the case for many others too, then you can create what Lobsters was going for, but here on HN.

You get the fully populated, buoyant chat, whilst fine tuning the scope of topics and sources you see.

I detailed the uBO rules here a moment ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510651