Re:Ask HN: Would you pay for Hacker News?
by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:10PM
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Sad but I feel the same way. I still enjoy reading HN comments and there are occasional gems among them, but most posts on HN these days reflect the mainstream majority opinion, the same platitudes and topics over and over again. It's not people at the forefront of new technology. I guess it's the "crossing the chasm" effect.
I don't know any better place though. I find myself using specific small subreddits more and more recently even though I was never a big reddit user in the past.
Re:Ask HN: Would you pay for Hacker News?
by clownpenis_fart on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:52AM
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I don't know that it's none of that, it does seem to still be full of Smartest People In The Room
Maybe it’s a reflection of the industry as a whole? Or maybe these communities are elsewhere now.
Re:Ask HN: Would you pay for Hacker News?
by MarblePillar on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:58AM
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Where is the new frontier?
It doesn't yet exist, and the old world is gone, same with so many professional magazines (RIP Dr. Dobb's). Enjoy the transitory period.
Re:Ask HN: Would you pay for Hacker News?
by MarblePillar on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:10PM
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Sad.
In the past? Maybe.
Hacker news used to be the place you’d come for the cutting edge in technology and entrepreneurship surrounded by interesting people pushing the boundaries day by day.
Nowadays it’s none of that. You no longer stumble upon the bleeding edge and most of the comment section is a wasteland of negativity (pot kettle I know).
It seems to be the natural progression of technical communities. Stackoverflow, /r/programming and now Hacker News.