[blowski]

When did we all end up so pessimistic? An interesting new idea with little more than an MVP, and we've already mapped out its whole demise.

[xpe]

Human nature finds a way to subvert some of the best intentioned technologies.

This is fact. We need to get used to it and solve the tough problems: identity, moderation, spam, discussion quality, community norms, and so on.

Building a service is often easy. Marketing it is harder. Building something useful to a group of people in spite of human nature is probably the hardest.

[toyg]

25 years watching the development of the internet, will do that to most people.

[radlad]

It's been around since at least 2012.