<story><title>Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/slashdot-founder-rob-malda-on-why-there-wont-be-another-hacker-news/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>Having to rewrite yourself constantly in order to fit your thought into a (let&amp;#x27;s face it, fairly arbitrary) limit is not fun.</text></item><item><author>fyrabanks</author><text>&amp;quot;I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&amp;#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;-135 characters (+conveys the same info)</text></item><item><author>D9u</author><text>I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&amp;#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter or tweeting... (as this comment illustrates)</text></item><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&amp;quot;I don’t think it’s going to work that way any more. I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what’s happening around the universe.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But then, I have to know to follow those people.  And I get a load of crap from them about their lives and networks that I don&amp;#x27;t want.  Somehow having to &amp;#x27;click through&amp;#x27; 30 links on HN is too much work, but constantly keeping up with the latest hot people on twitter &lt;i&gt;isn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; too much work?  Makes no sense.  Aggregators have served a purpose, and will continue to, for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goatforce5</author><text>The 140 character limit was so that a tweet could fit in to an SMS message (160 characters) and have enough room left over to address it to @someone.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Format&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Twitter#Format&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/slashdot-founder-rob-malda-on-why-there-wont-be-another-hacker-news/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>Having to rewrite yourself constantly in order to fit your thought into a (let&amp;#x27;s face it, fairly arbitrary) limit is not fun.</text></item><item><author>fyrabanks</author><text>&amp;quot;I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&amp;#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;-135 characters (+conveys the same info)</text></item><item><author>D9u</author><text>I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&amp;#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter or tweeting... (as this comment illustrates)</text></item><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&amp;quot;I don’t think it’s going to work that way any more. I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what’s happening around the universe.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But then, I have to know to follow those people.  And I get a load of crap from them about their lives and networks that I don&amp;#x27;t want.  Somehow having to &amp;#x27;click through&amp;#x27; 30 links on HN is too much work, but constantly keeping up with the latest hot people on twitter &lt;i&gt;isn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; too much work?  Makes no sense.  Aggregators have served a purpose, and will continue to, for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarybits</author><text>But it&amp;#x27;s good for readers. And if you have a lot of followers your tweet will get read a lot more times than it&amp;#x27;s written.</text></comment>