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I'm not convinced. Isn't HN the new Digg, and Digg was the new Slashdot?

These 3 sites (HN, Digg, Slashdot) are all user submitted stories. Techcrunch is just one source of many for those stories.

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Digg is nothing like HN. Granted, they are popular user submitted story sites with comments, but it's about the community. I visited Digg for a few weeks then stopped going because there was frankly lots of crap and trolls on the site. That is not to say that HN doesn't have some bad cookies here and there, but I got fed up with Digg when I saw lots of ignorant comments that were just meant to be hateful rather than for a positive discussion (particularly in the religious domain). HN for the most part, stays on the topic of startup/tech news, and has reasonable discussions.

True, but going back a few years, Digg had a very similar community to HN. As it branched out into other topics it really lost focus and is the site we never visit today :)

Many HNers are former Diggers. It's just been a few years.

Ah well I guess I saw the site post focus loss.

nop, reddit is the new digg, HN is the new reddit

True enough!

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