I disagree. I think HN is good in some ways, but awful in many other ways so much so that it overshadows the good. Unfortunately the good can trick honest people like yourself into thinking the platform as a whole is good, but hey, you're entitled to your opinion.
HN is "good" (debatable) because it's backed by Y Combinator. The tech involved is the bare minimum needed to solve the problem, and isn't a good model for "how to successfully build and run a community".
Without the support of some of the most powerful people in SV, and the people who follow those people, this site ceases to exist, and quickly.
Replicating HN's simplicity/tech stack is like painting stripes on your Civic because the F1 car you like has them.
HN is a place where people who are on or fancy themselves on the bleeding edge of tech congregate. It shouldn't be surprising that the opinion of that group, with the selection pressure it experiences, is dismissive of anything that's closer to "stable, mature project" than "hot new thing".
Fantastic post. I think you succinctly sum up what is worst about HN. Lots of people here like FP. Great! Use it, but spare us the interminable circle jerks.
My comment was not expressing an opinion on the relative values of Arc and the HN discussion community. HN delivers lots of value for the modest price of your time. Claiming that its performance is shameful when it isn't being directly monetized, or even indirectly monetized like Facebook &co., is unfair.
If you were talking about Facebook, Twitter, or Basecamp, that would be a different matter.
While he has a point, I feel somehow offensed^W trolled by such one-sided opinion. Should someone fork HN and make a paid/ad-filled version of it? Doubt so.
It's probably because I totally don't get that "oh, their service is so good I want them charge more" mindset.
Yet they didn't support it for years and now they are. I only found it funny because within the HN ecosystem you get the impression that it's really dying (rightfully so given the better options out there). Now another platform provider is supporting it, which will only increase its popularity according to your statements.
HN will often claim something is unusable and not what it used to be when the general public is quite happy with it and its working very well. I think it's more a bias against the wider product or company. HN users do not like YouTube and Google in general so any minor issue gets overblown while they would be quite happy to compile a new kernel to get PeerTube running.
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