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Not outraged. I'm not that kind of guy.

But I'm gonna miss it. I haven't been too active the last few months so I guess I might be to blame too (but then again I've not been active anywhere else either lately except here).

Where else do you go to meet people who share interests in a more general sense? HN doesn't care about photography. Twitter doesn't allow me to chose to see someones photos but not their crazy posts about politics. Facebook... well, don't even mention it. It's less than a week since last time they let hackers access theirs users accounts, and even if they had a perfect security record wrt hacking, it seems they just can't stand the temptation to abuse data: change settings, do experiments on users to make them depressed, abuse 2-fator phone numbers for spamming, ask people to upload nudes - many of us couldn't make this up even if we tried..!



Reddit has basically taken over this niche.


Would instagram work? (I have some photographer friends and they seem fairly active there).


For photography maybe.

But it is too limited (Google+ lets you write and cite text posts etc.)

Also while I originally liked it I think it is too heavily tied into Facebook now.




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