[client4]

A domain + compute has never been cheaper. That said, I think the signal-to-noise ratio on the modern internet makes discovery difficult.

[notnmeyer]

i think discovery is the real thing all these “back in my day…” blog posts are about. they want the quirk delivered to them, but they’re fallen out of the zeitgeist and conclude that the old days are completely gone.

[2ndorderthought]

It's approaching near impossible. The amount of articles posted to hn that are near AI slop is so high it's almost not worth using anymore.

[ryandrake]

The blandest-common-deonominator audience here on HN doesn't help, either. A modern-day equivalent of zombo.com or "Bert is Evil" or other quirkiness would have a hard time ranking highly here. Possible, but unlikely. Whereas the usual "I built My Generic SAS in Elixir!" and "My Musings On AI" posts shoot to the top.

[bjelkeman-again]

I mostly hang out in small online communities that essentially become tightly curated by people I am interested in interacting with.

[2ndorderthought]

Most of those got absorbed by reddit for me. Reddit has some awesome characteristics. But over the past two years it's becoming more and more bots. You used to be able to make a reddit account without an email, now you can't for obvious reasons.

[kjkjadksj]

You can still make an account without an email because reddit doesn’t verify emails. You can put whatever you want in the email line. I have made dozens of accounts this way. No idea if the associated emails are even valid.