[dwd]

Joined Usenet in 1990 and for a few years it was great.

I always wonder whether HN suffers from periodic influxes of newbies who don't get it yet and rile up the regulars.

[BLKNSLVR]

There was the Reddit Exodus of 2023 and there seems to be a fair few new accounts posting recently, which feels like an Attempted Agentic Takeover.

[lmm]

It's not periodic so much as continuous. But yes, HN is constantly where Reddit was about 3 years ago and correspondingly declining. E.g. see the rise in "underrated comment" type comments lately.