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

16 points by orschiro 7y ago

EGKW 7y ago
Old Reddit, with limited/selected subReddits, no thumbnails.
- highhedgehog 7y ago
  What subs? I find that reddit is increasingly just bullshit
leemailll 7y ago
/. for old trolls reddit to ctach up new ones
- nathanasmith 7y ago
  The soylentnews.org community seems to be growing well as another take on the /. formula.
eldodo 7y ago
lobste.rs
- jstewartmobile 7y ago
  shhh. you'll turn it into HN.
return1 7y ago
subreddits with strong moderation are indistinguishable from hn also indiehackers.com
- blinky1456 7y ago
  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.
  - newen 7y ago
    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.
  - return1 7y ago
    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.
- k__ 7y ago
  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.
  - return1 7y ago
    > Not "hacker" focused anymore. neither is HN to be frank
    - k__ 7y ago
      True. I have the feeling the hacker/hustler ratio is better here, tho.
CM30 7y ago
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.
quickthrower2 7y ago
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.
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Fsp2WFuH 7y ago
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.

16 points by orschiro 7y ago

EGKW 7y ago

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

highhedgehog 7y ago
What subs? I find that reddit is increasingly just bullshit

leemailll 7y ago

/. for old trolls reddit to ctach up new ones

nathanasmith 7y ago
The soylentnews.org community seems to be growing well as another take on the /. formula.

eldodo 7y ago

lobste.rs

jstewartmobile 7y ago
shhh. you'll turn it into HN.

return1 7y ago

subreddits with strong moderation are indistinguishable from hn also indiehackers.com

blinky1456 7y ago
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.
- newen 7y ago
  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.
- return1 7y ago
  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.
k__ 7y ago
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.
- return1 7y ago
  > Not "hacker" focused anymore. neither is HN to be frank
  - k__ 7y ago
    True. I have the feeling the hacker/hustler ratio is better here, tho.

CM30 7y ago

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.

quickthrower2 7y ago

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.

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Fsp2WFuH 7y ago

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.