> HN is just a step above reddit.

It didn't used to be this way. The line between HN and reddit is converging and now sometimes it's difficult to tell them apart.

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jjice 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I do think the quality has gone down over my seven-ish years on HN, but that could be me just remembering "the good ol' days". Still so much better than Reddit though. It's not close. Reddit has a much lower quality set of posts and comments on average across technical subreddits.

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tclancy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve been reading that same line for 15-20 years now.

	▲	bryan0 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, maybe I'm just getting older. Not sure how you would measure it, but maybe it would be % of posts with "nuanced" discussions. It feels like HN was gone way downhill in this regard, but who knows.

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whimsicalism 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

This is technically explicitly a rule violation. Yes, yes we've been hearing it for years but it is much more true in the past 2-3 years than anytime in the past imo.

Frankly, it's a shame that the only high quality discussion I can find is on gross platforms like 'the everything app' or more obscure forums.