Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama...<p>See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking".<p>The problem seems to be that the community is growing quickly and as a consequence the upvoted articles are those who cater to the lowest common denominator and it keeps getting lower. It's a problem all successful communities face.<p>The usual solution might be to migrate towards a smaller community as you propose, but the problem then is that you have to rebuild everything from scratch over and over again.<p>IMO a simpler solution would be to make a "meta-HN" which would just add an other layer of moderation on top of the existing HN:<p>- Remove all "drama/politics" entries<p>- Merge entries about the same topic under a single item.<p>Then just link to the usual HN comment threads. I find the quality of comments usually reflects the quality of the article so I think it would work well for me. No need to rebuild everything from scratch and rebuild the community.<p>The HN you once liked is still there, it's just getting increasingly buried it low-relevance contents.