HN lacks othe ability to delete comments and accounts. OTOH, Slack etc are private and lock up good content/discourse away from search engines. Hopefully, spectrum will offer a better balance.

I created a public community for Hacker News itself: https://spectrum.chat/hackernews

Something that I have always disliked about HN is the lack of the ability to delete comments and accounts. OTOH, Slack etc are private and lock up good content/discourse away from search engines. Hopefully, spectrum will offer a better balance.