Comment by iwontberude

I am glad I formed an active hacker community on Matrix before the proliferation of bots. I will miss Hacker News but I can tell it's going the way of Usenet in 1993. Much love to dang, I will always remember him and his effort fondly. Today's situation is reminiscent of Russ Allbery's famous usenet rant: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html