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Comment by alixanderwang | Hacker News Reader

Can definitely concur about the Reddit part. Feels like commenters there are always looking for a gotcha

Still happens here, especially when people publish open source libraries. "Why should I use your library, when there's ABC that does XYZ much better?" and other variants, as if the original poster was selling something. Doesn't happen as often when people publish final projects/products (even closed source).

Maybe it's just a dev thing. Some programming languages can have some really toxic fandom :D

That is not all people say though, plenty of people are like you and will bring up dropbox etc in response to that.

The important part is that HN isn't an echochamber, you get many viewpoints here.

I believe that all platforms with voting eventually become an echochamber. Unless they are partitioned into several smaller chambers, like reddit. Here the partitioning also exists, but is invisible (only some people interact with programming posts, only some with company posts, ai stuff, politics and so on), so that gives a certain "illusion" of many viewpoints. Illusion (imho) because I don't think those viewpoints interact with each other.

I’ve had 2 blog posts hit the front page of HN and the top of popular subreddits.

The quality and type of comments were identical on both platforms.

HN specifically seemed to be commenting based on the title and other comments alone. The most common thread of discussion was clearly explained in the first paragraph.

If you don’t want this to happen, maybe stop shilling ollama when vllm exists and is better?

I mean collectively to this website, not to you in particular

I really appreciate seeing those comparisons, always learn about projects I've never heard of. And practicing an answer here is low stakes way to develop a response, that might be useful later at an in-person meeting.

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