> There are much better professional discussions on
That is the random peak that results from lucky combinations in some corners of a space - it is not owing to how the channel works, it is not owing to the culture it promotes.
Comparing the best of the best of Reddit against "most HN threads" isn't a good argument. Either compare the best of the best of both (I'd argue that HN comes out on top on most tech / programming related issues, and Reddit comes out on top more on more general topics), or compare averages to averages (Here HN comes out on top in my view).
The comparison of best-of-the best is not that useful in practice because you have to filter through so much noise to find it, so the average case is more useful in practice.
> And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform.
Hardly surprising, though, social networks are prone to centralization (due to network effect), and GitHub & its competitors (anything that offers git repos + issue tracking + fork-ability, really) are social networks.
Also, GitHub offering private repos for free right after they got acquired by Microsoft helped a lot. A lot of people, myself included, were using gitlab.com for private repos at that time
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