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Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

Posted by orangeyjuicey on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:33AM
from the self-post dept.
Right now, HN is my favorite source of new information and I really like it.

But I think places like these can have a tendency to become bad, which might happen too far into the future for the alternative to already exist, but given that I feel it's taken a long time in my life to find this website, I wouldn't mind having a list somewhere of websites to try if I ever feel like this one isn't fun anymore.

So the question is, if HN was suddenly down, where do you think we would all go? (and maybe, where do you think we should go?)

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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by methusala8 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:02AM (#28071698)
Twitter is useful if one is able to avoid toxic conversations.

My policy is to mute certain words/people which trigger hostile exchange. With this mechanism in place, I have been able to follow a few interesting voices.

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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by throwAwayFr on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:35AM (#28071543)
Implying HN isn't already bad?
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by joshxyz on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:40AM (#28071561)
its still good (as someone who found this site just couple years ago) but every once in a while someone links an old thread, you're partially right.
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by uyt on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:06AM (#28071724)
It's just selection bias. If those threads weren't great they wouldn't be linked. A better test would be to use wayback machine to look at a random date's front page and its threads.
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by the_only_law on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:52AM (#28083760)
Not in the same realm necessarily, but there’s a page somewhere on the site that shows the front page, but only from users with a certain account age. Interestingly, the last time I looked at it, there’s was a lack of a certain topic showing up.
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by moksly on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:35AM (#28085348)
It is, but when is the last time you’ve connected with someone interesting and taken the conversation beyond HN?
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by thinkingemote on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:04AM (#28071711)
I would go back to real world meetups. Remember Linux user groups?
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by simonblack on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:02PM (#28081633)
I keep looking at 'Lobsters'. However it's a bit more 'tech' than HN.
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by the_only_law on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:50AM (#28083752)
It’s also invite only.

I used to roll my eyes at some of the things I saw on there, such as suggestions to freeze invites or to cull users, allegedly to keep the site high quality) but frankly I’m now wondering if those are the only sort of methods to achieve that.

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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by joshxyz on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:38AM (#28071552)
> So the question is, if HN was suddenly down, where do you think we would all go? (and maybe, where do you think we should go?)

nowhere lol lets be honest, but if its consistently down you can expect peeps here tweeting about it, haha.

global sites offline? check hn.

hn offline? check twitter.

lol

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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by xet7 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:16PM (#28102730)
For me, I'm happily at paywalled https://lunduke.locals.com of https://lunduke.com . Paywall keeps trolls away.

At HN/Reddit/Slashdot, there is flagging/downvoting etc, so it's hard to discuss something, like even asking about some normal technical question. It's possble to see something at HN new page, that will soon be flagged, disappear, downvoted etc. I would like to add comment to some flagged HN article, because for me it's important topic, but it's not possible because it's flagged.

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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by tmaly on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:41PM (#28082719)
I would fall back to usenet
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by mattowen_uk on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:59AM (#28085133)
Some of the comp.* groups are starting to get proper activity now that the spammers have all left.
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Re:Where would you go if HN becomes bad? by forcry on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:26AM (#28071512)
> Right now, HN is my favorite source of new information and I really like it.

I know this is not what you asked, but find a library. Nothing that is online is trustworthy anymore.

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