> It has made me a bunch of friends, including some very close in-person ones. I don't think I'm an oddball in that regard!

I've been here over a year and seem to be fairly well recognized at this point, but I don't think I could even confidently name another user in the same city as me.

▲

tptacek 4 days ago | parent [-]

For whatever reason, no meetup-type-thing for HN in Chicago has ever stuck or resulted in anything for me. I mostly meet people because they email me (or I email them).

	▲	kevinrineer 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I hope you didn't encrypt those emails /s. Do you think it would be different though if you didn't create and post your own content? It certainly seems that contributing to discourse with just comments is quite limiting to creating deep enough social connections.