I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)

Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by cmplxconjugate on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:30AM (#36860337)

I wouldn’t really say the visual aspect of HN really puts people off. I would argue that it’s more a function of discussion topics being more niche and technical.

Ultimately the worst situation is when replies can consist of only a “joke” or meme (worst of all… a gif). Discussion is destroyed and instead replaced with a delta function; a single impulse response. “Click and move on”.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by glimshe on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:36AM (#36860375)

GIFs require too much work, nowadays you only get a reaction - if you are lucky!

Usenet was also niche and technical in the beginning, but that changed over time. Maybe the answer is multifaceted; Hacker News is a bit ugly, has a large percentage of technical users, strong moderation and lack of "low effort" features such as inline images, GIF libraries, reactions etc.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by antupis on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:40AM (#36860405)

same thing happens at Reddit more niche topic -> better content.

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