points by dang 1 year ago

It's trying to grow in the sense that we want new users. Otherwise it will get stale. I fear that's already happening.

ashwinsundar 1 year ago

Is there data or otherwise that HN is growing stale? Or more of a general vibe

mdaniel 1 year ago

I mean this in the spirit of genuine curiosity: what staleness risk is there given the massive breadth of experience the existing userbase already has?

  • dang 1 year ago

    We need a healthy influx of younger users in addition to retaining older ones.

    • jaza 1 year ago

      It remains an unsolved problem! For example, Facebook's "solution" was to buy Instagram.

  • walterbell 1 year ago

    > staleness risk

    Mortality.

    • dang 1 year ago

      Indeed.