Twitter and Reddit still can be indexed, but they've also become increasingly hard to use without an account. Reddit doesn't let you fully expand threads when you're unlogged. Twitter limits the amount of things you can read and shows a modal. Both of them heavily limit usage on mobile devices without installing an app.
Sure, an account is free but might require giving information you don't want to give. Twitter asks me for a phone number a few minutes after creating an account, even if I don't post anything). Reddit at least lets you skip giving an email.
Sure, there are workarounds such as using lite versions (old Reddit, mobile Twitter), but that's not known to all people coming from a search engine.
It feels as if HN are the only one that's not a partially walled garden yet (and Wikipedia of course).
Agreed. IDK how I feel about Reddit. I've been on it since 2010 when Fark lost its spark. I remember some great times but a lot of it was "junk" content that in the end was very meaningless. I wish I could say I used it to develop my career in tech but that isn't true either; I use specific blogs, books, and tutorial sites to learn instead.
I suppose I mostly view it as a continuous party, yeah it's fun if you attend but after a few hours I wish I was doing something more productive.
Exactly, I mentioned it. But not only it's bound to go away sometime, it's also not trivial to find to anyone who's not an expert Reddit user, unfortunately.
Sure, an account is free but might require giving information you don't want to give. Twitter asks me for a phone number a few minutes after creating an account, even if I don't post anything). Reddit at least lets you skip giving an email.
Sure, there are workarounds such as using lite versions (old Reddit, mobile Twitter), but that's not known to all people coming from a search engine.
It feels as if HN are the only one that's not a partially walled garden yet (and Wikipedia of course).