[huhtenberg]

Just look at the contents of the front page. It's no longer Hacker News, it's mainstream Tech News with a bit of nerdy sprinkle. The older audience is heavily diluted with those who push pseudo-tech cruft (like a woman suing a VC) to the front page, the same people who also comment more and don't really get the spirit of the board. HN is at its tipping point. I am eagerly waiting for HN2... that's assuming one hasn't been started already and kept private.

[pg]

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic shows what the frontpage would look like if we only counted the votes of people who joined HN in the first year. It looks pretty much the same.

The comments are declining though, I admit that.

[staunch]

I'd guess it needs to show only stuff that was submitted by those people to be really useful.

[calinet6]

I just want to say, I don't respect this sort of lazy elitism.

We all talk about scaling our companies, or scaling our technical systems, but when it comes to scaling a social system, are we really just going to throw in the towel and point fingers like we're in junior high?

We can do better than that. It's a hard problem, but isn't that what we're here for? Come up with a solution and quit whining.

[tprice7]

You may be interested in this:

http://www.thoughtocean.com/what/dilution

[dalore]

So what happened to slashdot, then reddit, and now hackernews?