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"I wondered if their work might show that tech really does need humanism—that better online communities can be built one relationship at a time. Then my eyes moved down the thread, where a third user had left a new comment. It read: “King Canute was supposed to stop the tide, you couch alluder.”

Great article, very well researched. Ms Weiner has clearly put some major effort in there ... or spends an inordinate amount of time here anyway! Is HN on speed dial in her browser.

The article is pre-pandemic and a lot of other recent events. I'd love to diff the older article with one written nowadays, ideally with minimal knowledge of the original.

>>gerdes+(OP)
She did do a ton of research, worked through all the materials we sent her (I sent a lot, including a thwack of Kids in the Hall videos, several years-long email threads with specific users, with their permission of course, and god knows what else), and even changed her mind—a thing rare enough to always deserve respect. We took a risk in trusting her; I felt like it worked out, and I'm glad we chose to be open. The article came out fairer than we probably had any grounds to expect. There were bits I could complain about, but that's inevitable. I felt seen and I think Scott did too.

Re Canute, she missed that pvg was being playful, in the context of a longstanding positive connection. I felt bad when I saw that. But we did get an amusing, and properly italicized, About box out of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pvg.

Come back, pvg!

>>dang+17
How different do you think the article might have read had it been written two years later than it was?

>>Aviati+bq
No clue.