HN User Tenures
Users share their long histories on Hacker News, including account ages, lurking periods, and first-time commenting experiences, often in response to complaints about the site's changes.
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Long time lurker. I used to use forums lots, then went though about 10 years where I contributed nothing anywhere. Decided to start contributing again, and HN feels worth contributing to.
You've been on hackernews for the last decade, but you don't have any comments, and no submissions prior to this one? :)
I created my HN accout 7 years ago after lurking for a couple years. People have been saying the same thing about HN the whole time I’ve been around.
I've been on HN for over eight years (just noticed it, how time flies by...), no need to worry for recency bias ;)
Your last comments were 10 months ago and 10 years ago. A rare occurence. HN at its finest
I've been on HN since about 2012 under various accounts, mostly lurking
My account may be only 5 years old, but I've been here before it was even called hacker news.
ive been on HN for about 15 years :)
Damn, that was a looong time ago ;) about twice as much as I've been on HN.
I've been lurking on HackerNews for goodness knows how many years. This is the first time I've been motivated to log in and comment - I agree 100% with your outlook and very nicely put.