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Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

468 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.

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Lerc ◴[15 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44571964[source]▶
I have seen this question asked on subreddits, Not about AI, but for other topics that some people dislike.

They always seem to take the form of "Should we divide this group into A and B, A stays here and B goes over there and that way everybody is happy"

Invariably the person who proposes this wants to remain in group A and will not be a participant in group B.

To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats"

Anyone is free to make a website with whatever content they want, they can invite people to it and grow your own community. Directing a community to divide to remove an element you dislike is an attempt to appropriate the established community.

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1. dmbche ◴[15 Jul 25 19:26 UTC] No.44574900[source]▶
I don't think the poster has the power to split HN in twain.

I don't think the poster believes some kind of democracy could bring about this.

I do believe that by entertaining the idea, the subsequent discussion will be useful for moderators to get a feel of what their userbase thinks of the current state of things.

From my understanding, the soul of HN and what makes it what it is is the moderation - having discussions on issues is an efficient way to signal to them.