Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe

Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by ecshafer on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:42PM (#50429684)

Its funny, because the Digg migration is probably when Reddit started going down hill.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by bhaak on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:56PM (#50429919)

Was the Digg exodus the start of Reddit’s Eternal September?

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by ecshafer on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:13PM (#50430212)

I think so. That was the first big shift from Programmers / IT / Nerds to rage comics if I remember right.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by soulofmischief on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:58PM (#50431042)

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by miiiiiike on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:53PM (#50435849)

Dang is the best moderator I’ve ever encountered.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by kenchan on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:02PM (#50430013)

I specifically remember one commenter saying, "Look, we're not happy about what happened either but we have no where else to go. Now scoot over."

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by VLM on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:37PM (#50431712)

Traditionally Tumblr was blamed for that in the late 2010s, although Digg is plausible. I think the sheer volume of Tumblr had more impact on Reddit than Digg ever could have, its a size thing.

A lot of Reddit problems were own-goals. Lets have a civil war over being a free speech or being a brutally censored speech site, I'm sure the civilians trapped in the middle will love the experience. Spoiler -> They did NOT.

But humans can always be replaced by bots if you're selling advertising views, LOL. HN doesn't sell ads (or at least none have ever gotten past my ad blocker) so there's fewer bots here so the decline due to bots is slower here.

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