From all the talks about HN lacking in many areas for some users, I was wondering where HN folks visit for quality content/comment/userbase?<p>Side question: Would you come back if it shutdown for a month?
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews</a> As long as everyone goes there, we can make it work.
Quora and my facebook friends. Maybe a little bit of twitter with a select set of people. A few private mailing lists. Some private IRC channels.<p>Same/better discussion (on the private lists), but not generally driven by media articles.<p>Probably would come back after a month, but not after 3 months.
Despite going downhill continuously for half a decade, slashdot still gets the job done for about 50% of the big stories that come thru HN.<p>For more startup-ish news, TechCrunch and GeekWire.
I fall back to reddit/programming when I don't find anything interesting here. I'd go there waiting for HN to come back, as I find r/p to be of lesser quality than HN.
Can I ask my own question? Is this more than a hypothetical inquiry?<p>> Would you come back if it shutdown for a month?<p>1. Yes.<p>2. That's not what "shutdown" means. "Suspend" is closer to the apparent meaning.
Isn't it ironic that we have come to only 2 alternatives to Hacker News when there are zillions of websites?
Can this be a possibility of another website?
Given all of the recent discussions about problems with HN I wonder whether there would be any positive effects of actually choosing to shut it down for a month?<p>I would certainly come back if it did shut down for a bit.