Pillowfort Is Closing(pillowfort.social)
48 points by BrenBarn | 37 comments
A staff announcement on Pillowfort stating the social blogging platform will close on December 4th, 2026, with refund and blog export details.
#online-communities on Hacker News
28 stories tagged online-communities, newest first.
Getting Banned from r/java(sjhannah.com)
11 points by davidpolberger | 11 comments
A blog post by Steve Hannah recounting the experience of being banned from the r/java subreddit.
Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens(blog.bityard.net)
38 points by bityard | 10 comments
A personal blog post recalling BARK, a toll-free bulletin board system for teenagers in the 1990s, and the author's early online communities.
Orkut.com(orkut.com)
194 points by andreynering | 144 comments
Orkut.com landing page pitching a revival of the Orkut social network focused on people, communities, and genuine connection.
Calling It Quits on ServerFault(sysadmin1138.net)
66 points by zdw | 35 comments
Blog post by a long-serving ServerFault moderator, elected in 2011, announcing he is stepping down after over 15 years and reflecting on moderation.
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat(thisamericanlife.org)
440 points by simonpure | 236 comments
Transcript of This American Life episode 897, whose prologue describes kids using comments on a low-traffic NPR show on Spotify as a secret group chat.
Why is Hacker News like that?(drewdevault.com)
30 points by caution | 6 comments
A blog post by Drew DeVault discussing the culture and behavior of the Hacker News community.
Bring back crappy forums(tedium.co)
500 points by pentagrama | 318 comments
A Tedium essay looking back at old-school online web forums and arguing for bringing back small, imperfect community forums.
AI slop is killing online communities(rmoff.net)
750 points by thm | 648 comments
A blog post by Robin Moffatt (rmoff) arguing that low-effort AI-generated content is degrading online communities.
Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
519 points by Oras | 394 comments
Ask HN thread requesting that Hacker News restrict new accounts from posting due to a rise in AI-generated submissions, especially in Show HN.
65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform(philippdubach.com)
417 points by 7777777phil | 413 comments
Blog post analyzing Hacker News archive data, finding 65% of posts have negative sentiment and that they average more points than other posts.
Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks(theverge.com)
534 points by leotravis10 | 396 comments
A Verge feature on how Wikipedia has endured attacks and remained resilient through its neutrality policies and history, with Jimmy Wales.
Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms(academic.oup.com)
398 points by croes | 309 comments
Open-access PNAS Nexus journal article by del Rio-Chanona, Laurentsyeva, and Wachs on how large language models reduce activity on online Q&A platforms.
Happy New Year HN!
1218 points by thunderbong | 232 comments
A Hacker News discussion thread where a user wishes the community a happy 2024 and commenters share why they value HN.
A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors(github.com)
534 points by ssgodderidge | 208 comments
A GitHub README by minimaxir cataloging undocumented features and behaviors of Hacker News, such as karma effects, ranking penalties, and moderation mechanics.
Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
403 points by thyrox | 350 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking what the outcome of the 2023 Reddit blackout protests was, with commenters describing a stalemate and declining subreddit activity.
How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet(cambridge.org)
455 points by bawolff | 485 comments
Open-access American Political Science Review article examining how rule ambiguity and institutional clashes shaped Wikipedia's governance and community.
Hacker News Guidelines(news.ycombinator.com)
375 points by tonmoy | 353 comments
The official Hacker News guidelines page describing what to submit, what is off-topic, and rules for submissions and comments.
Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it(washingtonpost.com)
530 points by pseudolus | 403 comments
Washington Post tech article on how Goodreads, once seen as the future of book reviews, has fared since being acquired by Amazon.
Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated(sub.rehab)
403 points by thunderbong | 242 comments
Sub.rehab is a directory listing alternative platform instances (Lemmy, kbin, Discord, Matrix) for subreddits that went private during the Reddit API protest.
The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen(theverge.com)
372 points by lewisflude | 253 comments
The Verge article publishing Reddit's message threatening moderators who closed subreddits in the API protest blackout, and seeking replacement mods.
Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private(old.reddit.com)
1570 points by Jimmc414 | 870 comments
A r/ModCoord post sharing a Reddit admin statement that moderators who shut down subreddits in protest will be removed and replaced with new active moderators.
The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes – TechRadar(techradar.com)
361 points by pg_1234 | 312 comments
TechRadar opinion piece arguing that the Reddit subreddit blackout exposed how heavily Google search results depend on Reddit content.
Killing Community(marginalia.nu)
495 points by dasil003 | 350 comments
A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.
Fark redesign is now live (2007)(fark.com)
399 points by MrThoughtful | 412 comments
A 2007 Fark.com comment thread announcing the site's redesign going live, with about 3,780 user comments.
Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests(arstechnica.com)
943 points by thunderbong | 459 comments
Ars Technica article on user protests over Reddit's new API pricing, which threatens to shut down third-party Reddit apps.
Moderation strike(meta.stackexchange.com)
320 points by mwint | 226 comments
A Meta Stack Exchange post announcing a moderation strike by volunteers protesting Stack Overflow, Inc.'s treatment of its community moderators.
Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon(news.ycombinator.com)
512 points by codetrotter | 305 comments
Hacker News user profile page for moderator dang, showing account creation date, karma of 63,419, and an about section quoting Marion Milner on conflict.