Please don’t let HN become a support forum for reddit. It’s a dying and moulding corpse that you needn’t waste brain cycles worrying about, if I were you I would consider your ejection a blessing.
But I would like for others to know about this, if for no other reason than to add one more bit of motivation for people to create competitor sites.
Personally, I'd especially like to see a non-free but inexpensive offering with a reddit-style interface that caters to niche communities.
Let reddit have the cat videos and memes that litter their front page; that's what they want anyway. There needs to be another place for hobbyist communities.
It's easy enough to stand up a Discourse server, but there's something to be said for the network effects of a single site with a large user base.
Or PayPal
Or eBay
Or Stripe
(I could keep going but you get the point)
It seems quite different for a payment processor to lock you out of an account.