Reddit vs HN Comparisons

Reddit is not kind of like forums, it's almost Usenet ported to the web.

Precisely my predicament; I had contributed a lot of technical and mathematical content in Reddit, and got tons of content in response; but I can no longer engage with it in good faith.Unfortunately, none of the alternatives capture or even understand the point of reddit. They focus on secondary features like decentralization, when the primary appeal of reddit is the network of communities (that are, furthermore, properly threaded, moderated forums) at the same place, using the same format,

Reddit gets a bad rep but many communities are great. Obviously the UX sucks but there are workarounds. Some subs are moderated more strictly than HN, many less so, so there is a mix. There is nothing quite like HN but you could join a mix of subs to get the same spectrum of programming, science, tech and a touch of politics.

Is Reddit not like a forum? What about HN?

This is certain. It's impossible to have any kind of discussion on Reddit, outside of a few places like /r/conservative and /r/tuesday. It's one big echo chamber. Hacker News definitely is better than that.

What are the benefits this has over Reddit and Reddit alternatives?

Reddit seems to have a larger number of users and a broader range of topics. I don't enjoy the discussions/comments on HN, the answers are fairly predictable, and I mostly visit this site because I'm forced to.

I'm in the same thought process of reddit. No forum has ever been easier to read through and parse than a reddit thread. I'm sorry but the forum pages of old just don't cut it anymore. They were acceptable for their time, but now it is so much harder to follow a thread compared to things like HN or Reddit.Also with the way reddit used to be I wholly agree. There used to be good articles on there, interesting posts, memes kept to a minimum. Heck I remember when something got 100

that's the problem. there's practically no other alternative if you want the variety reddit has. Hackernews is a great solid community, however it's only one community.

I feel like Reddit has replaced many niche forums, for better and worse.On the plus side, Reddit has a low bar to entry. It's super easy to find or create a forum for a topic. You don't need to create a new account, and you can view threads from across your interests in a single view if you want.On the other side, Reddit has many issues:- Tree-style comments are not the best format for every type of discussion.- Upvoting encourages content that gets votes: groupthink opinio