Comment by Kiro
7 days ago
No. HN is good as it is and I find it disrespectful when newcomers are demanding changes like this. There's a good reason the forum has stayed the same for almost 20 years.
7 days ago
No. HN is good as it is and I find it disrespectful when newcomers are demanding changes like this. There's a good reason the forum has stayed the same for almost 20 years.
The UI might be the same but there's clearly been a lot of work done on the backend of the site in that time
edit to add: Don't gatekeep by using the pejorative "newcomers". Unless you're PG there will always be someone who has been around here longer than you
1. I joined in 2016. I guess it all depends on what the cutoff is for "newcomers." I suppose you could call anyone who signed on after 2007 a newcomer.
2. "demanding?" I wrote:
>Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across. The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.
>The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.
Since you say this, I'm curious why you've also submitted about a dozen AI/LLM or adjacent articles in just the last two weeks. One was even a few hours before posting this Ask HN. That makes me think I'm not understanding something about your thinking.
You make sense. In my ideal world there would be HNxAI and HN. I'd submit to both, and also regularly frequent each.
I would like to be able to filter topics I don't care about. My acocunt is older than yours so I guess my opinion holds more weight according to your metric.
> There's a good reason the forum has stayed the same for almost 20 years.
You mean like when vote changing was added?
Topic tags wouldn't kill HN.
I don’t want the visual clutter.
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