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0 pointscapableweb4y ago0 comments

I love people who think everything has to be aimed for their consumption.

Some things are aimed at a group of people, and written with that in mind. Someone closing a project/stopping maintenance of something, usually write directly to the group of users of the software.

To expect everything to contain information about everything someone could not know, means everything would have to be extremely verbose. We have search engines, typing "4coder" and finding the website took me around 2 seconds, I'm sure you'd be able to do it just as fast.

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paskozdilar4y ago· 3 in thread

I understand your perspective, but I disagree in this particular case. "Show HN" is obviously aimed at our consumption.

radlad4y ago

This is not a "Show HN."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

paskozdilar4y ago

Hm. It was either removed, or I haven't seen the title properly.

Still, the argument is the same - a person is posting an article on a news site for the sole purpose of other people seeing (consuming) it.

I consider it basic decency to create a good presentation when you're showing something in people's news feed.

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__ryan__4y ago

Well, anyone can post a link to HN but only the project author can adjust the project’s README. Perhaps a better URL exists, but also perhaps not everything on HN has to be for everyone on HN. This is obviously news for people who know what 4Coder is, not necessarily meant to onboard people who don’t want to look up what 4Coder is.

Edit: grammar

dspillett4y ago

> I love people who think everything has to be aimed for their consumption.

I love how people don't bother providing information that would be easy to provide, the URL to the website would be handy as here it isn't even included in the README on github, then people get all het up when others mention the lack of information.

masukomi4y ago

I love people who think that they have any semblance of an idea of who will see or read their stuff. It's so pre-Gutenberg of them. ;)

You don't have to write your things FOR EVERYONE but it isn't unreasonable to suggest that folks are going to link to random projects on github and that other folks may end up on said project through unexpected means, and with no context, or with unexpected context. It probably follows that that _maybe_ spending the time to write _one sentence_ to describe WTF you're looking if you want ANYONE to consume it isn't unreasonable.

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