Ask HN: How are online communities established?

Re:Ask HN: How are online communities established? by larrykubin on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:56AM (#24444136)

I thought I was here on the first day, but your HN join date is one day before mine. Time flies!

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Re:Ask HN: How are online communities established? by bemmu on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:20PM (#24445703)

Sure does, I have the same day as you. But wasn’t it pg’s blog and not Reddit that sent the initial users? Starting to get hazy on the details.

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Re:Ask HN: How are online communities established? by nostrademons on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:00PM (#24446172)

I think it was both - not unusual to post an announcement for a new forum in multiple places, and PG's blog and Reddit very much had overlapping readerships (and authors) at the time. I found it through Reddit.

BTW, there are some YC founders that have join dates several months before us - HN was open to internal YC batches about a half-year before it went public.

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