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Re:Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a c... by kick on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:01PM (#22708303)
Months-long? Let's not kid ourselves: years-long.

A modern example of this is lambda-the-ultimate.org, which has so many threads that have been running for years without any clear purpose that it's almost impossible to find a thread that hasn't.

Of course, that could be a matter of scale; with less posts to keep track of, I guess it would be easier to continue things eternally.

Re:Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a c... by JohnL4 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @12:13PM (#22712035)
Long-lived thread as emergent community? :-)