[zozbot234]

HN has always had rather poor quality of discussion around politics (though of course it's still way better than Facebook or Twitter, not to mention Parler!). It's not really about Trump or about what has transpired during the past week; that's just the symptom.

[the_only_law]

Agreed, but it just seems like more and more politics. I used to be able to find interesting threads randomly by browsing comments, but it seems like a large amount of what I see there now is low effort bickering. Additionally, I can't seem to get engagement or discussion on any of my "on topic" comments. Now this might be my fault, but some of the threads I make that seem more interesting, tend to get maybe an upvote or two and little to no comments.

I've come and gone over the past several years, but tend to come back because its still the site that curates the most interesting tech content, but most of my good tech discussions happen on various discord servers now.