Ask HN: If HN didn't exist, which other community would you default to?

16 points by orschiro 7 years ago | 16 comments

Reddit, lobsters, some of the HN clones also get a bit of traffic so I might aggregate them somehow.

I like reddit because you join the ones that gel with your tolerance of sillyness. I like a bit of humour but not a chain of 100 replies to a fart joke.

EGKW 7 years ago |

Old Reddit, with limited/selected subReddits, no thumbnails.

highhedgehog 7 years ago | |

What subs? I find that reddit is increasingly just bullshit

Fsp2WFuH 7 years ago |

One that I'm working on myself and too afraid to post publicly. The people on this site are not my target audience either.

ps. There's no one on it but me.

CM30 7 years ago |

Probably one of my own communities. Hell, maybe I'd set up that universe's equivalent of Hacker News or something, rather than it being a Ycombinator project.

return1 7 years ago |

subreddits with strong moderation are indistinguishable from hn

also indiehackers.com

blinky1456 7 years ago | |

I rarely visit anymore since the partial redesign. For one thing the page loads are very long, with an annoying splash page.

Two, the endless scroll, but they have your profile button on the footer and other essential links? How has that not been brought up?

The site overall has annoying and bad ux.

Makes me wonder if the site has essentially been abandoned by the owner. At the least it is neglected.

return1 7 years ago | | |

For a minute i thought you were talking about reddit's undesign. Yeah Indiehacker has almost comically bad UI but you're more likely to find people that are hustling there. HN is more about corporate office politics.

newen 7 years ago | | |

I couldn't tell which site you were referring to at first lol. Indiehackers is particularly unbrowsable, even though I tried browsing it using different browsers multiple times. It's slow and very glitchy.

k__ 7 years ago | |

indiehackers.com was nice once, but now it seems to be full of non-technical "hustlers" who want to make the quick buck. Not "hacker" focused anymore.

return1 7 years ago | | |

> Not "hacker" focused anymore.

neither is HN to be frank

leemailll 7 years ago |

/. for old trolls reddit to ctach up new ones

nathanasmith 7 years ago | |

The soylentnews.org community seems to be growing well as another take on the /. formula.

eldodo 7 years ago |

lobste.rs

jstewartmobile 7 years ago | |

shhh. you'll turn it into HN.