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So what makes Haker News great is a lot of "features" that it doesn't have. How ironic that others spend so much resources adding features that are ultimately detrimental.

But I guess it's a matter of who the audience is. If you want to appeal to the masses, some of these "features" probably do help.

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Theres a "filtering for higher abstractions" argument to be made here, which can be applied to the whole internet. Usenet was great, but casual video chat (tiktok) obviously grabs more people.

I have a suspicion many of the people who really enjoy HN, problably dislike much video and audio content; at least consuming less of it proportional to the general population. I read faster than anyone talks and tfind text more efficient; I expect others share that. And also that there are other reasons people prefer text.

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