Ask HN: If HN didn't exist, which other community would you default to?

16 pointsby orschirovor 7 Jahren16 comments

17 comments

Fsp2WFuHvor 7 Jahren

One that I'm working on myself and too afraid to post publicly. The people on this site are not my target audience either.

ps. There's no one on it but me.

[deleted]vor 7 Jahren

EGKWvor 7 Jahren

Old Reddit, with limited/selected subReddits, no thumbnails.

highhedgehogvor 7 Jahren

What subs? I find that reddit is increasingly just bullshit

leemailllvor 7 Jahren

/. for old trolls reddit to ctach up new ones

nathanasmithvor 7 Jahren

The soylentnews.org community seems to be growing well as another take on the /. formula.

eldodovor 7 Jahren

lobste.rs

jstewartmobilevor 7 Jahren

shhh. you'll turn it into HN.

return1vor 7 Jahren

subreddits with strong moderation are indistinguishable from hn

also indiehackers.com

blinky1456vor 7 Jahren

I rarely visit anymore since the partial redesign. For one thing the page loads are very long, with an annoying splash page.

Two, the endless scroll, but they have your profile button on the footer and other essential links? How has that not been brought up?

The site overall has annoying and bad ux.

Makes me wonder if the site has essentially been abandoned by the owner. At the least it is neglected.

return1vor 7 Jahren

For a minute i thought you were talking about reddit's undesign. Yeah Indiehacker has almost comically bad UI but you're more likely to find people that are hustling there. HN is more about corporate office politics.

newenvor 7 Jahren

I couldn't tell which site you were referring to at first lol. Indiehackers is particularly unbrowsable, even though I tried browsing it using different browsers multiple times. It's slow and very glitchy.

k__vor 7 Jahren

indiehackers.com was nice once, but now it seems to be full of non-technical "hustlers" who want to make the quick buck. Not "hacker" focused anymore.

return1vor 7 Jahren

> Not "hacker" focused anymore.

neither is HN to be frank

k__vor 7 Jahren

True. I have the feeling the hacker/hustler ratio is better here, tho.

CM30vor 7 Jahren

Probably one of my own communities. Hell, maybe I'd set up that universe's equivalent of Hacker News or something, rather than it being a Ycombinator project.

quickthrower2vor 7 Jahren

Reddit, lobsters, some of the HN clones also get a bit of traffic so I might aggregate them somehow.

I like reddit because you join the ones that gel with your tolerance of sillyness. I like a bit of humour but not a chain of 100 replies to a fart joke.