[wallabie]

Agreed - time and time again I'm surprised by the people that read HN. It seems to comprise of people who did some cool stuff 10,000 years ago, people who are doing cool stuff today, and everyone in between. Alas, all good communities are doomed to become shit as time goes on...

[GuiA]

> Alas, all good communities are doomed to become shit as time goes on...

I see that your account is roughly 4 months old. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills"

I've been on HN for almost 6 years, and I don't think it's gotten quantifiably worse. The tone has changed, but it's hard to say much beyond that. In fact, the moderation has gotten much better; and 'pg not commenting anymore has (in my very subjective opinion) improved things (any of his comments would dominate a thread's discussion).

[dukeluke]

How would you say the tone has changed?

[sthatipamala]

There _was_ a time where it seemed HN was becoming a hateful, negative place but since HN became its own autonomous unit of YC, they've put a lot of effort into turning it into a constructive forum.

[Scarbutt]

Alas, all good communities are doomed to become shit as time goes on...

"visual studio code 1.9" getting the most time (in the front page), upvotes and comments for the day is a prove of this happening.