Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hostile redesign killed it

Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by ycombinete on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:31AM (#36290666)

In general the lack of separate communities, and the technical posts that take up a good portion of the front page seem to guard against that kind of Eternal September on HN. The top of the front page right now:

  1. Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hostile redesign killed it (fark.com)
  2. Why Perl?
  3. Video to Video with Stable Diffusion (Step-by-Step) – Stable Diffusion Art
  4. The Surprising Power of Documentation
  5. Intel is all-in on backside power delivery (ieee.org)
  6. Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus recodes the neural proteome
  7. MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5

I suppose you'll know it's over when there are no more technical posts. So keep upvoting them ;).

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by TeMPOraL on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:52AM (#36290848)

We can always hit the emergency button labeled "please post and upvote some Erlang stories quick!". Worked well in the past.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by dmix on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:02AM (#36290959)

That was back when pg still posted here and could rally the troops.

Doesn’t look like he engages much https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

Maybe dang could arrange something or it could happen organically. But that particular event was in response to an acute flood of traffic. Not some long term reduction in comment quality and Reddit-tier rage/politics.

You can’t fight floods with a small temporary dam. Nor can you moderate your way out of it entirely as every major subreddit has shown (hyper modding usually does the opposite by sanctioning a certain ‘acceptable’ set of low quality posting and fuelling meta drama).

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by Maken on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:09AM (#36291032)

I think that was updated to a Rust button long ago.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by TeMPOraL on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:30AM (#36291230)

Nah, Rust is way too hip these days. I think a more suitable topic would be eBPF or theorem provers.

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