this sites negative pressure doeth sucketh greatly.

although 6 people got arrested, like many times in the past, they are making examples to try to deter others, as long as the CRIA doesnt get pissed at demonoid again…. :)

you can just ignore the posts you don’t like! There’s still always at least one good hack each day now, so just skip these news posts and go to them

i for one welcome the news posts. if they had displaced posts about hacks i might have different feelings about them, but they haven’t, they’re extras. if your cell phone provider started giving you 500 free texts a month when you only used to get free calls when you signed up, would you stop using them find another service provider? no, if anything you just wouldn’t use the texts if you didn’t need them. if you don’t like the news posts, scroll past them! it saves you having to read them and us having the comments filled with whining!

i don’t visit sites that focus on news sites because they’re usually just paid advertising, and i’m not that interested in news that much. however, its nice to see a bit of news on this site, as its only ever one post a day (two at most) and it just lets me know what’s going on. its also written by the same people who write about the hacks they like on this site, so i know its going to be interesting and not some advertisement in disguise

but please, if you do have to leave the site because of the new, extra content, do so without posting about it first. comments are for discussion of the articles, not that im one to talk with this off topic post :)

I feel as though i am in hack a day automatic mode. I check it to see if i can find that one good post but i actually dred having to sort through the other stuff.

I feel like im going to leave the site for a while as well (who knows i may even get some exam study done).

hackaday evolves, and should evolve, over time. the post was filed under “news”, so quit whining about it.

while it may not be hacks, it certainly is news. and contrary to some of you, i actually find it interesting. i’d never have heard about the oink arrests if i hadn’t read hackaday — and as a former oink user i like to keep updated about the oink case.

colour images scare me.

as others have said, the things as of late are not exactly the quality hax hackaday had been known for.

a digest is fine every now and then but the digest spread out in multiple posts is poorly. news is good and all but it doesn’t go on the main page

One of the things that really made this site really unique was the percentage of ‘good’ posts, which normally stayed around 80~90% of all posted content.

That percentage has dropped dramatically, and while the quantity of good hacks hasn’t changed much.. There’s a lot of bad stuff in with it, diluting the overall value of the site. Please, don’t ruin such a good place.