I’m conflicted about even asking this. I do really love that HN is only very lightly curated for me, and I’m evenly exposed to the opinions of a fairly random sample of people on a daily basis. It’s easily the standout feature of this site.
But still… It does often feel too ephemeral. I sometimes wish I were able to easily keep track of what some people are posting on here and interact more directly. It’s easy enough to sort of keep up with some of the more prolific accounts because they’re often almost hard to avoid, but that’s about it.
As an example, I ran into a few people in a thread once that live nearby (statistically fairly unlikely!) and there was talk of meeting up, but that was the end of it, because how else could we coordinate? I can’t even find that thread now, but I’m still up for some beers, gorge residents!
Anyway, sorry, I’m rambling. Really I was just wondering if anyone has any good tools for following other HN users’ activity.
i like that the conversation is mostly between hn readers and the article they're commenting on, with crosstalk very much being secondary.
i would really hate hn becomming a social network. but that's me, i happen to hate those things.