HN Meta: A Eulogy of Sorts.
What a sad day. I've always thought that this community was something different. I love coming here; the intelligence; the discussion; the connectedness. I don't personally know a single one of you, but I've admired many of you in your ability to form smart and reasoned arguments about many things. Today however, you've shown me something else. Today I learned that you're not much more than any other community, despite your qualities. Today I learned that the same thing that destroyed reddit will likely destroy you - that as the site grows, the community fragments, cliques form, and conflict begins. In this race to assert opinion, good people withdraw and are replaced by those of lessor quality. The whole thing slides downhill like some sort of slow moving train wreck. It seems that despite the best intentions, communities naturally self destruct. I was hoping that pg would be able to cr
Why it failed
What a sad day. I've always thought that this community was something different. I love coming here; the intelligence; the discussion; the connectedness. I don't personally know a single one of you, but I've admired many of you in your ability to form smart and reasoned arguments
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- run4yourlives
- Ended
- 2009
- Source
- hackernews