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Ask HN: HN is gone, now what?
In a hypothetical scenario where HN would disappear for whatever reason more or less permanently, what alternatives would there be?
Where someone could find similar quality of commenters?
- h2odragon 4y agoThe replacement*s* would not arise until after the original died; if that was a sudden and final thing then they'd pop up quickly and try to transplant the community as a first focus. If it changes more subtly then there's a long process of new communities growing and nothing quite like the original ever happens again.
- solardev 4y agoI've found an amazing community (generally not techy though) at boards.straightdope.com. Some smart folks and interesting topics from all sectors of life.
- gysfjiutedgj 4y agosquid blog
- Amfy 4y agogreat question. following. maybe bring good old'school forums back. man, i miss those times.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoNobody's really built a new one in a while. One with a strong, mostly fresh take on mobile access would be super interesting.
- slater 4y agolobste.rs
- romellem 4y agoInteresting, I haven’t heard of this before. It seems like to create an account to you an invite?
- glouwbug 4y agoYou can ask around, I'm sure someone will be kind enough to send you one. I've personally never received one but I would like one
- kayodelycaon 4y agoOne issue with lobste.rs invites is they are a mechanism to vouch for a person. Whoever invited you will show up in your public profile. So there’s a reputation risk if you invite who later gets a lot of negative attention. (Which is why I’ve yet to invite anyone.) Edit: Here is the text for that. Invitations are unlimited, but persons you invite will be associated with your account in the user tree and you may be responsible for them if they cause problems. Please use your discretion when inviting persons you don't personally know.
- glouwbug 4y agoGuess I wouldn't want to be responsible for an internet stranger's defamation. I'll keep shit posting on HN
- arthurcolle 4y agolobste.rs
- vyrotek 4y agoLooks great. Would love an invite.
- Jaruzel 4y agoI can invite you, let me know if you want me to?
- vyrotek 4y agoThanks, managed to get one. By the way, your Amiga collection is amazing. My dad and I play with his collection once in a while. So many great games! https://twitter.com/vyrotek/status/1479932078267396100 https://twitter.com/vyrotek/status/1479932078267396100
- arthurcolle 4y agoI gotchu, send me an email or something, you can find it on my profile: https://lobste.rs/u/arthurcolle https://lobste.rs/u/arthurcolle
- vyrotek 4y agoThank you! Accepted.
- Markoff 4y agoseems entirely focused on devs as if people didn't work in other tech fields
- thiht 4y agoCan’t we have a community just for devs?
- BayAreaEscapee 4y agoWoohoo! I just got back an hour of time every day, just as if a day had 25 hours instead of 24.
- dorkwood 4y agoI think the hours I spend here go towards satisfying my need to feel part of a community. Without it, I suspect I'd spend the same amount of time on another social media site.
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoI started on digg, hackaday and slashdot, before moving here when those services crumbled (afaict had is still going strong, my interests changed a bit though! I think if yc fell, communities may segregate a bit into different interest groups. I’m sure there’s a few yc quality subreddit’s also, If you can stand the user hostile ux
- LordDragonfang 4y ago>If you can stand the user hostile ux old.reddit.com is still available, which is only slightly user hostile. There's a setting to default to it if you're logged in, otherwise it's pretty trivial to either install an extension or write a userscript to automatically redirect you to that subdomain.
- brigandish 4y agoThere's also Teddit[1], which I use most of the time I want to look at Reddit now. It's been discussed on HN before[2]. [1] https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
- FractalHQ 4y agoThat is one of the slowest websites I’ve ever tried to use! Too bad to, because it’s a great idea.
- ehhhhhhhhh 4y agoThis is similar to my experience. Slashdot, digg, reddit, then HN. HN hasn't really declined (I think I matured) but I still find some nuggets. I'd like to see a group like early $PLACE on something like IPFS or whatever to keep the bar high enough.
- Markoff 4y agowhat would be those subs? at least on mobile you can use Boost or Sync, but on desktop it's more difficult, really only old.reddit.com and experience is vastly inferior to mobile apps
- dlisboa 4y agoLobste.rs. It's much more focused on tech/programming and the discussions there (although very few comments) often lead me to discovering new things. Although that part of it also sucks a bit because you can't comment if you're not an invited member (which I'm not). Many of the articles are found on HN first, but some are easier to see there because the front-page doesn't change as much as HN.
- 1123581321 4y agoLobste.rs would probably further restrict invitations to protect against a flood of new users.
- waynesonfire 4y agoartificial scarcity, classic marketing scheme. i'd move along.
- 1123581321 4y agoI know what you mean, but I think many of their users really would prefer the site be ignored by most of the Internet.
- h4waii 4y agoDrop an email in your HN profile, I'm sure someone will send you an invite. I find the quantity of comments on lobste.rs to be lacking compared to HN, they are much higher quality but there's not a lot of discussion for some reason.
- vorpalhex 4y agoLibera.chat since I assume most of HN is also on IRC
- dan-robertson 4y agoI would be surprised if that were the case
- tomjen3 4y agoIRC is pretty terrible. No logs, no persistant names, no way to catch up but to spend hours looking at text.
- gaws 4y ago> No logs, no persistant names, no way to catch up but to spend hours looking at text. A bouncer solves these issues.
- yogthos 4y agoSet up a [Lemmy](https://github.com/LemmyNet https://github.com/LemmyNet) instance.
- another_story 4y agoThey still have the hard-coded "slur" filter?
- gurchik 4y agoNo, it's completely configurable https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1773 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1773
- another_story 4y agoThat's good. I remember reading years ago how they weren't going to remove it. Glad they left it up the server admins to make the call for their communities.
- dopa42365 4y agobecome a /g/entleman
- unraveller 4y agomake orange site good again
- dandanio 4y agoMaybe start an NNTP server?