dang • 6 days 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.

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ashwinsundar • 6 days ago

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

mdaniel • 6 days 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?

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dang • 6 days ago

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

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jaza • 6 days ago

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

walterbell • 6 days ago

> staleness risk

Mortality.

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dang • 5 days ago

Indeed.