This seems a good time to point out that a few of us been organizing a revolt against HN. I wish it wasn't so, and the drama is mostly uninteresting. Suffice to say, expressing concerns about HN on HN is a quick way to end up beheaded.

If you're looking for an alternative: https://www.laarc.io/

You may find the site a welcome change of pace. We just had our first Show post today.

There is a good chance that this account will be quickly banned, this post killed, and this account marked as "uncommentable", meaning this is the last comment I am likely able to post under this handle. But you may also know me as sillysaurus.

I've missed you guys.

yongjik

Upvoted because, even if I don't really care for what you think about HN, there's something interesting about someone getting so enraged with HN that they go through the trouble of building an identical-looking clone.

minimaxir

The core framework of HN, Arc, has an open source variant and it's not hard to deploy a strict HN clone. https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki