[ColinWright]

Yup. I've taken the opportunity to review my HN usage, and I get significantly less out of it now than I used to, and it just sucks my time to nearly no benefit.

I may keep posting links - the bookmarklet makes it easy - but the discussions here now seem to add very little, so I'm not bothering any more.

[18pfsmt]

If it makes any difference, I appreciated your efforts. I hope veterans of HN don't become discouraged because they were the most influential in causing me to finally create an HN acct (oddly enough, I don't take that action lightly), and try to contribute to a group I've learned so much from.

[ColinWright]

Thank you. I appreciate that, but it doesn't make much difference. For me, HN is now more of a sink than a source. On balance as many people hate the dup detection as like it, and the comment threads no longer seem to shed the light they once did. I guess I've changed, and my interests no longer really align with HN.

So I'm moving on. I still have the bookmarklet, so I may still remember to submit things, but I doubt I'll do much more than glance at the Front Page occasionally.

Cheers.

[jasonwilk]

Coli, at least you are learning on this site. I can't say the same for Reddit.

[ColinWright]

Jaso: the re-assessment has convinced me that I'm not learning any more. I did once upon a time, but I'm not now. That's why I'm largely stopping reading, certainly stopping reading the comments. I'll still read the links submitted by people I've learned to trust - people who have similar interests to mine.

I've never used Reddit, so I can't comment about that.

ADDED IN EDIT: Just to clarify a little - there are still people here from whom I can learn a lot, and I'm sure there are still comments and submissions that I can learn from, but they are drowned by stuff I consider irrelevant, repetitive, uninteresting, or otherwise not something to learn from. The gold is hard to find now, the returns are no longer worth the effort.

[jamesteow]

Well if it makes you feel any better, a friend and I started another service that hopes to give people more control over the quality of their front page. We literally just released started inviting people to the site today.

If you'd like an invite, let me know. [e-mail]