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I think this is a brilliant illustration of the "wear marks" around a basic service. At its core, it's still 140 chars, but each of these subtle deviations rep

I think this is a brilliant illustration of the "wear marks" around a basic service. At its core, it's still 140 chars, but each of these subtle deviations represents a bend in the direction of features valuable to users. Developers and designers can benefit from this by not overspecifying how a technology is to be used until loads of feedback has returned. Kind of like the old story about the architect who didn't fill in the sidewalks until students had worn paths into the campus lawn :)

steveklabnik 11y ago
... I THINK I just upvoted you, which was my intention, but I'm on mobile and am also not sure if I downvoted you. If so, my bad: this is a great comment.
- geostyx 11y ago
  I don't think HN has downvotes...
  - TheDong 11y ago
    It does once you hit a certain karma threshold (maybe 500?). Steve is definitely faaaar above that threshold.
  - krakensden 11y ago
    There's a karma threshold to downvote.