[dang]

You succeeded in reassuring me further—thanks! This little subthread turned interesting, though it's teeming with sample bias of course.

> Long-form YouTube is also something

Yes, we hear that often too. I didn't mention it above because it's not text, but in terms of how people spend time and where they go to learn things, it's a huge alternative.

I wonder sometimes how HN might interface with the videoverse. I can't imagine having video on the site but I can imagine making videos based on HN threads or articles that have appeared here. I just can't imagine me making them!

[altairprime]

Long-form YouTube is much more text than may be apparent on the surface. Discussions with hundreds or thousands of comments and with the same wide-ranging falloff curve of HN in how interesting those comments are (and, too, HN’s tendency to bubble up trite one-liners and me-toos due to sharing the integers-only voting system weaknesses).