Hacker News

“There is a lot of propaganda/influence peddling/public opinion shaping/shilling/obfuscating etc. going on here”

“HN doesn't freeze sorts, so posts and/or comments you didn't see will often invisibly end up before the new location HN sent you to”

“HN avoids the worst of it by having a culture and mod policy of downvoting trolling and low-effort crap.”

“HN is heavily self-correcting when it comes to low quality content, trolls, spammers, clickbait titles.”

“HN’s code seems to be stuck in the 2000s, so there’s no easy way to automatically block or filter beyond that.”

“i honestly would rather have a reddit lite site like hacker news where there appears to be at least a diversity of opinion”

“HN unfortunately is not a forum for anything "deep", most conversations are shallow and temporary "fast”

“I have always thought hn as higher quality than reddit, but lately I'm becoming a victim of my own irritation.”

“I personally loves the way HN pages are served as they are loading very fast even on not-high end devices”

“there's absolutely no reason for any of that crap to be built in, other than that's how reddit (and HN) do it”

“HN is kind of like the HOA of websites, giving you notices about color choice, pets, and under construction gifs.”

“employs the least amount of dark patterns and is the only website that I know of that natively helps people for whom the use of…”

“the culture here promotes staying on topic and being civil, which is good for productive debate, but not really fun”

“hacker news is widely considered to be one of the most hostile communities on the Internet to new people”

“Only on HN can you stumble into the comments section just moments after a CTO, founder, author, etc. left unfiltered remarks”

“it's a news blog run by a startup incubator as a way to increase discussion and submarine in their concept and products”

“HN isn't quite there, but it approaches this ideal more closely than any other major forum I'm aware of presently”

“Hacker News is the only thing that we have left that's similar to what we had from forums of the old”

“At best HN has a very small subset of the problems in social media, and its positives easily outweigh its negatives.”

“Places like HN are tolerable because they’re small enough to be actually moderated and to self police.”

“HN's unsaid rules make it harder to gain karma and seem to improve the quality overall compared to /r/programming.”

“I've soured on this site over the past few years due to the heavy partisanship that wasn't as present in the early days”

“recent changes in their comment system have reduced my exposure to bots to a level I much prefer over every other platform I use”

“HN seems to work partly because it tolerates a wider spread of content and lets the community do a good part of the pushing back.”

“It's the proliferation of downvoting. It disincentivizes speaking your honest opinion and artificially boosts mass-appeal ragebait.”

“Nowhere in the HN UI is the poster warned of this, because that would add complexity which would violate HN's principles of minimalism.”

“the website is designed poorly, moderated inconsistently, and the YC-affiliated retinue is sketchier than a pencil drawing”

“I use Hacker News for some sample of current events and to offer my thoughts and discussion on them.”

“I have found so many great open source projects & communicated with many interesting people which would've been hard to do so without this forum”

“I trust that if something is important enough to get posted here (and make the front page), then I should probably be aware of it.”

“It’s nowhere near as good as it was even five years ago, but it’s still one of the only online spaces I visit everyday.”

“I have found some really really great software which I must not have found if it were not for Hackernews”

“I think the hn model is decent because it doesn't optimize for engagement but for intellectual curiosity”

“If Hacker News doesn't improve its moderation (especially of fascist propaganda) I do think it should go the same way.”

“If you're lucky, you can reach your audience on HN, but it's about the only remaining, successful aggregator of this type”

“the curating is done by real people (not by AI), and often the comments add a lot of value to the discussed article”

“Websites are slower today than they were when I got DSL for the first time in the 1990s--except HN of course.”

“I can't follow particular users or topics, I can't leave myself a note about some user that I've had a positive or negative experience with”

“Hackernews does not have crazy moderators or at the least not as many; there is more free-form discussion, which is great.”

“there are tons of great platforms that young people can benefit from, and vice versa. Including HN.”