Comment by throwaway2037
3 months ago
I didn't know anybody here before I joined. (I have been here for a few years, and I still don't know anybody here.) How would a person like me get invited or vouched?
3 months ago
I didn't know anybody here before I joined. (I have been here for a few years, and I still don't know anybody here.) How would a person like me get invited or vouched?
Ask you IRL friends or colleagues from your job "hey, do you happen to have an HN account?"
If the discussion is related to a public project, like in the examples in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303604
...you can use existing communication channels (website, readme on github) to ask people for an invite to participate in it.
I am pretty sure that none of my friends nor co-workers read HN. Whenever I have shared stuff, none of them have heard of HN.