Hi,
I was wondering how Hacker News really started? How did it get initial traction? Are there any early users (besides PG) that are still active to this day?
Sincerely
Thanks :) Unrelated - is there any way to get some sort of indication when someone replies to a comment of mine? Sometimes I see others' replies to one of mine too late, and so we cannot develop the conversation any further because they don't know I replied back.
I'm thankful that we don't have that feature. After a day or two, any argument you get into on HN is likely to die because no feature of the site jams replies to old comments in your face.
Having discussion about the topic which I chose to participate in is clearly good for me, otherwise I would not participate in it.
Is it good for HN in general to see such in-depth discussions? That's less obvious, but I actually prefer to have such option myself (meaning that I'd like to be able to see longer discussions between other HN users).
Again, I don't have to read these discussions.
The other part of his sentence is important too. "It is more trouble than it's worth". As in, the amount of damage it will cause to the site due to ongoing conflicts outweighs the benefit you will receive from automatically getting notified on replies.
