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What were the other sites HN users would hang out at back then? Slashdot? Google groups and listservs? Was HN really the first true "community" for this audienc
by mdolon 5y ago
What were the other sites HN users would hang out at back then? Slashdot? Google groups and listservs? Was HN really the first true "community" for this audience?
- pfarrell 5y agoFor me: Slashdot, though the peak days were behind it Digg, which would be fun for a while still Blogs like the old new thing, and Joel Spolsky Del.icio.us and Stumbleupon and (I’ll admit it) Fark
- mdolon 5y agoAh yes, Digg! Definitely spent a lot of time on there hunting for tech news.
- wyclif 5y agoI had a del.icio.us account since the beginning until it got sold, but it wasn't really a forum or hangout. It was a link aggregator. I still have a Slashdot account, but I can't remember the last time I logged in there. Peak Slashdot was really 1998 for me, when I was working in my first IT job and would check it as much as 5x a day. By 2011, it had declined greatly in readership because of the combined effects of Twitter, Reddit, and HN.