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>>pg+(OP)
I wanted to see if there had been any visible decrease in quality. Doesn't look like it. There's surprisingly little difference between this and the regular frontpage.

>>pg+e
I'm not sure why, but my feeling is that I am personally less happy with the content a) being submitted and b) making it to the front page than I was even 6 months ago.

Maybe since I'm not a newbie on HN anymore I'm remembering through rose-tinted glasses and yelling at the kids to get off my lawn.

The things I care about are programming tips, new software, javascript/python/ruby/etc specific articles, new startup companies. There seems to be a lot less of this kind of content and more general tech news, which I can read at any number of other sites.

I don't care about business stories(other than those related to startups) and rumors Techcrunch has started about something.

On the plus side, the discussions that happen in Comments are definitely still good. I would be great if there was a way to get easier access to the comments than the ity-bity link we have now.

>>geuis+h1
> On the plus side, the discussions that happen in Comments are definitely still good.

Maybe its me, but I've found a lot more comments within the past fortnight or so grating on me than previously. Remarkably, every time I checked the submitter, they'd been on Hacker News for about a year and a half at least. And by grating I basically mean rude and unhelpful.

>>anc202+la
I've noticed a lot of the top voted comments lately are riddled with poor thinking and logical fallacies. I'm not sure if the smartest commenters are leaving, but the crowd definitely seems to be rewarding nonsense.