Comment by akkartik
1 day ago
Found an older one, from 2011 :D
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=259276
The birth of HN is lost in the mists of time, but our best guess is it happened about 3 months before it started going downhill.
1 day ago
Found an older one, from 2011 :D
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=259276
The birth of HN is lost in the mists of time, but our best guess is it happened about 3 months before it started going downhill.
2008 is good! Now I want to know what was the first comment saying HN was going downhill.
A few years ago I did a thorough search for "HN is turning into Reddit" posts so I could link them at the bottom of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=225134 - June 2008 (10 comments) (<-- wow, we allowed titles that long?)
How do you separate (1) HN is going downhill, from (2) the world is going downhill, from (3) people always think things are going downhill? It seems hopelessly undecideable. (And yet, being human, I do think that HN is going somewhat downhill. Relative to the world though? not sure)
HN has always had sucky bits, just like human nature. Everyone who thinks it's going downhill is just one of today's 10,000 [1] to discover some sucky corner of human nature.
I'd say the world has gone downhill much faster and is making HN look good in comparison.
[1] https://xkcd.com/1053
That's the "we don't have to outrun the bear" theory of HN, which is my favorite theory of HN.