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Where would you go if HN becomes bad?

11 points by orangeyjuicey ↗ HN
Right now, HN is my favorite source of new information and I really like it.

But I think places like these can have a tendency to become bad, which might happen too far into the future for the alternative to already exist, but given that I feel it's taken a long time in my life to find this website, I wouldn't mind having a list somewhere of websites to try if I ever feel like this one isn't fun anymore.

So the question is, if HN was suddenly down, where do you think we would all go? (and maybe, where do you think we should go?)

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forcry
> Right now, HN is my favorite source of new information and I really like it.

I know this is not what you asked, but find a library. Nothing that is online is trustworthy anymore.

throwAwayFr
Implying HN isn't already bad?
joshxyz
its still good (as someone who found this site just couple years ago) but every once in a while someone links an old thread, you're partially right.
uyt
It's just selection bias. If those threads weren't great they wouldn't be linked. A better test would be to use wayback machine to look at a random date's front page and its threads.
the_only_law
Not in the same realm necessarily, but there’s a page somewhere on the site that shows the front page, but only from users with a certain account age. Interestingly, the last time I looked at it, there’s was a lack of a certain topic showing up.
moksly
It is, but when is the last time you’ve connected with someone interesting and taken the conversation beyond HN?
[dead] twtwtw23454
yeah it sucks. people here take things too seriously, it's impossible to have a light hearted discussion. That's one reason I really enjoy n-gate.com

that said it's probably the best centralized place for high signal-to-noise tech info.

Also love n-gates's about page message:

About this webshit Good thing you idiots got rid of the blink tag. It was super detrimental to the user experience.

Hacker News is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and sociopath incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's ineffectual curiosity".

Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European mistake centered on free and open-source attention whoring. It is aimed at TEDx wannabes and anyone interested in the free and open-source noisemaking movement. It aims to enable social media engagement specialists to meet and to promote the awareness and use of themselves.

This site is full of bullshit and you should not read it. Having read it, you should ignore it. You don't have to listen to this shit from some rando on the internet.

Opinions are those of your employer. complain here or appear to monetize this site

joshxyz
> So the question is, if HN was suddenly down, where do you think we would all go? (and maybe, where do you think we should go?)

nowhere lol lets be honest, but if its consistently down you can expect peeps here tweeting about it, haha.

global sites offline? check hn.

hn offline? check twitter.

lol

methusala8
Twitter is useful if one is able to avoid toxic conversations.

My policy is to mute certain words/people which trigger hostile exchange. With this mechanism in place, I have been able to follow a few interesting voices.

thinkingemote
I would go back to real world meetups. Remember Linux user groups?
simonblack
I keep looking at 'Lobsters'. However it's a bit more 'tech' than HN.
the_only_law
It’s also invite only.

I used to roll my eyes at some of the things I saw on there, such as suggestions to freeze invites or to cull users, allegedly to keep the site high quality) but frankly I’m now wondering if those are the only sort of methods to achieve that.

tmaly
I would fall back to usenet
mattowen_uk
Some of the comp.* groups are starting to get proper activity now that the spammers have all left.
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xet7
For me, I'm happily at paywalled https://lunduke.locals.com of https://lunduke.com . Paywall keeps trolls away.

At HN/Reddit/Slashdot, there is flagging/downvoting etc, so it's hard to discuss something, like even asking about some normal technical question. It's possble to see something at HN new page, that will soon be flagged, disappear, downvoted etc. I would like to add comment to some flagged HN article, because for me it's important topic, but it's not possible because it's flagged.