Is HN Dying?

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

Netcraft confirms it!

It’s invite only

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

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.'"

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?

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/