[weeblewobble]

I've been reading HN daily for over a decade and what's been tempting me to quit lately is the realization of just how stagnant discussion is around here. Privacy dead-enders, soliloquies for the "dream of the open internet", Google cancelling projects, ad blocking, piracy, the "spirit of free speech"... i'm sick of it! It's a nasty combination of smug and boring.

One of the things that I've come to appreciate about Twitter is the prominence of the person associated with each tweet. On HN (and reddit) everyone is an amorphous grey blob. On Twitter at least I can find and follow interesting people, and mute/block people that are uninteresting or obnoxious.

[potta_coffee]

You've really hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned. HN has become awfully boring, but much more so in the last year or two. I used to keep up with tech here and I've learned a lot about architecture from links and articles posted here, but the conversation seems to have become narrower.

[askafriend]

+1 and wayyy too many curmudgeons.