Comment by altairprime
10 hours ago
Not much overlap between students and HN these days, though? I’m an extremely rare outlier afaik :)
The administration has so far opened with one “Canvas said” and then an hour later one “Canvas is down indefinitely” email noting that they’re aware it’s serious.
(Canvas is a glorified wiki for teaching students, with quizzes and such, for those unaware.)
> Not much overlap between students and HN these days, though?
That's my biggest fear.
I'm an undergrad student in computer science and I come here regularly. Many of my friends do the same. Of course, that can't be extrapolated to students globally, but students who love what they do are not extinct!
FWIW, I'm a student, so there are at least a few still here. Feel free to ask me any questions (either via email or via replies to this post) and I'll try to answer them.
Is there any internal data on where students are going instead?
Not much, but I do ask the youngest founders what their friends read if they don't read HN, and the only consistent answer I hear is Twitter.
(and btw, they do say "twitter")
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You honestly don't wanna know
If my peers are any indication, a whole lot of TikTok, Reels, Twitter, Discord, and other such mind-numbing platforms.
The types of platforms I would consider 'substantive' (or, at least, more substantive than those platforms) are definitely on the way out.
The few times friends have seen me browsing Hacker News or a certain Mongolian basket weaving form, the first thing they comment on is how confusing the interface is, and how old the site looks.
I truly don't understand the mentality, but if your site doesn't take three seconds to buffer a simple text drop down menu, and have JavaScript elements load in mid-scroll that bump elements around the page making you just barely miss that button you were trying to click, then your site is seen as 'inferior' or 'sketchy'.
Perhaps I've just had a bad sample, but I've experienced a variety of different environments by this point, and by and large, I've seen more people in my generation act in that manner than not.
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Perhaps some interest-related Discord servers. Tragically, Discord is just another locked down silo without publicly accessible front on the web.
Drop me an email if you like — it’s not really topical to Canvas but I’m happy to discuss further.