[poisonborz]

You can't "build" a community like HN. Not even YC could (again) if they wanted to. Things like good mods is still just maintenance. It's a single lucky constellation of stars, and the gravitational pull after that.

[ok_dad]

I really hope if YC goes under that HN has some support from elsewhere. This is the only social media I do because of how good the insights are in the comments and I don’t think I could recreate the feed quality anywhere else, even on my own.

[anitil]

I'm sure there's a lot of other people contributing, but it feels like this community is held together by the benevolent but unyielding hand of dang

[CalRobert]

Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess

[LunaSea]

Lobste.rs is invite only which means that most people can't participate on the site.

Result is that there is a low volume of content and participation.

[quickthrower2]

If not, see you on r/hn