I am an active reddit user and I wouldn't say I dislike it. As much as I regret the changes over the past few years, I'm still using it.
I'd says there's an appreciation that HN is a different community and some jealousy in defending it. Each time reddit ratchets up its suck quotient there's a new wave of refugees. There's "instructing noobs and emphasizing this isn't reddit" and there's "hating on reddit" and I think the distinction is valuable enough to continue observing.
Hating on reddit would be pointless. It's like the ocean, it's there weather you chose to swim in it or not. Better: It's a big, protected bay on the ocean, and it was fun to swim in til the big ships started running over the little fish, and the outflow from the mines on shore got nastier.
HN's a smaller quieter cove with as yet fewer people pissing in it. That alone makes it feel more welcoming than reddit. Of course there's detractors of this board too; JWZ is apparently unimpressed for one.
I'd says there's an appreciation that HN is a different community and some jealousy in defending it. Each time reddit ratchets up its suck quotient there's a new wave of refugees. There's "instructing noobs and emphasizing this isn't reddit" and there's "hating on reddit" and I think the distinction is valuable enough to continue observing.
Hating on reddit would be pointless. It's like the ocean, it's there weather you chose to swim in it or not. Better: It's a big, protected bay on the ocean, and it was fun to swim in til the big ships started running over the little fish, and the outflow from the mines on shore got nastier.
HN's a smaller quieter cove with as yet fewer people pissing in it. That alone makes it feel more welcoming than reddit. Of course there's detractors of this board too; JWZ is apparently unimpressed for one.