On: Where did the long tail go? (2022)

[baxtr]

The entire internet is the long tail. Heck, HN is a pretty long long tail!

I sometimes wish we could go back in time to when you could only reach people by landline and there were only two TV channels.

[bmacho → baxtr]

HN is the antithesis of the long tail, it provides a very short, fixed length tail (~50 topics for 24 hours, and everything repeated), and the classic shared experience which literally disappeared from the world in the past few years. (Okay, every niche is a short tail in a long tail, still.)