HN is not a charity, it is a marketing platform for YC with some community aspects.
Feels more like a community with some YC marketing aspects to me.
I disagree. It feels very YC driven.
Re:Tell HN: Server Status
by maxerickson on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:32AM
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Here's a bookmarklet that turns each timestamp into a comment tree folder (collapsing that branch):
https://gist.github.com/maxerickson/8456792
Credit to http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads-v... which I referenced for dealing with the structure.
Re:Tell HN: Server Status
by helicoidal on Saturday January 18, 2014 @11:46AM
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There is a very strong bias to everything YC.
The HN community has also outgrown the software HN was built on you can see this in threads like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091
but even that thread is an extreme many front page items that gain traction are hard to go through because of things like lack of foldable comments. Other things that are extremely noticeable are expiring links which pg has said he doesn't think are important enough to fix. There are many small UI issues that won't be fixed for the community.