I use this website even more after the whole Reddit API fiasco. If people are flocking elsewhere, where is this new place?

I really love HN and I check it multiple times per day. I have yet to find another place on the internet that's anything like it (personally).

Totally agree. HN is great!

Such same!

It does seem like there's a lot less substantive posting in the last few months. Maybe the tech downturn makes people less interested in talking about this stuff? Or maybe all the people writing the cool stuff previously were laid off? Sad.

Still, I don't know any better place to geek out casually right now. Slashdot sure ain't what it used to be. Twitter is dead. Reddit ain't the same anymore. Where else would people go?

A few to shake things up:

- https://lobste.rs/

- https://www.lesswrong.com/

- https://brutalist.report/

- https://slashdot.org/

- https://www.designernews.co/

Lesswrong looks cool

HN is only major active crowd sourced technology news source and forum with a sane freedom of speech moderation, without ads and narrative driven algorithms. Why this is a dying place?

/r/programming is dead /r/technology is boring

Only other place with active tech discussion is 4chan.org/g/

>with a sane freedom of speech moderation

This, I disagree with. HN moderation definitely biases when it comes to politics and Y Combinator people/companies.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

"Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: 'Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.'"

Netcraft confirms it!

Totally agree

It’s invite only

No, Lobsters is. Not HN.

No

/r/programming used to be nice I find this nicer Perhaps we’ll have the same fate as metafilter