I'm a pretty recent (active) user here. It's been less than a week.<p>I was introduced to it quite a while ago due to YC, and us applying as a tech startup.<p>Also came across stories of <i>viral</i> or pretty successful HN launch posts by fellow startups.<p>And ofc, heard some pretty great things about the candidness of the community.<p>How about you?
All programming forums I was previously active on, just effectively stopped their existance. Some of them literally, some of them made moderation too severe to be useful, some of them got flooded with semi-advare. Medium stopped being interesting. IRQ stopped being a place with any users online. HN is the last island of freedom.
2019 and I don't remember how. I don't even do anything computer related, but I'm interested in it. I remember seeing the design of the forum and imidiatly fell in love with it.