HN is a good example of how little a website actually needs once you remove the requirement to constantly squeeze more engagement out of it. Though to be fair, its audience is unusually self-selecting :)
HN is a good example of how little a website actually needs once you remove the requirement to constantly squeeze more engagement out of it. Though to be fair, its audience is unusually self-selecting :)
I don't know much about how HN is run but I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the need for human moderation here, and I assume that is a lot of work.
A message forum is simple, old technology. Keeping it usable and useful for humans is not.
I don't think the parent meant that it doesn't need moderation, but we've always had that in IRC/boards etc.
But there's nothing akin to personalised algorithms, resharing posts, multimedia content etc. I mean even text formatting is very lean :)
that's absolutely true, it's also the fastest website i use daily, by a large margin
> I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the need for human moderation here
Bingo. As anyone that’s tried to run a Mastodon instance for more than just family and friends will tell you.
Even family can be challenging ...
Agreed… yet I meant "needs" in terms of product features, not maintenance or moderation