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HN is not a charity, it is a marketing platform for YC with some community aspects. There is a very strong bias to everything YC. The HN community has also ou
by catinsocks 13y ago
HN is not a charity, it is a marketing platform for YC with some community aspects.
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 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.
- helicoidal 13y agohttps://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317 https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317
- maxerickson 13y agoHere's a bookmarklet that turns each timestamp into a comment tree folder (collapsing that branch): https://gist.github.com/maxerickson/8456792 https://gist.github.com/maxerickson/8456792 Credit to http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads-v4.js http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads-v... which I referenced for dealing with the structure.
- Harj 13y agoHN 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.
- OafTobark 13y agoI disagree. It feels very YC driven.