Maybe it's just because I'm part of the old-fart grey-hair "get off my lawn" crowd... Stuff like "haha xD" is fine for online chat, but seems unprofessional an

Maybe it's just because I'm part of the old-fart grey-hair "get off my lawn" crowd... Stuff like "haha xD" is fine for online chat, but seems unprofessional and is inappropriate in something like a HN submission, especially if you're trying to get people to look at a project. And as a counterpoint to brieflify, there's: http://longform.org/ http://longform.org/ https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/