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Way too much cynicism in this thread! I thought that was a great way to put on hold a blog I've always enjoyed reading over the last few years. Congrats and be

• raganwald 17y ago
  Way too much indeed. We should remember that blogs are written for an audience and that audience may not be HN. If a post doesn't satisfy us as a community, the fault is not with the author's composition but with the choice to submit the link to HN. A similar thing happened to me when I wrote a rememberence-day post. Some people reasonably suggested it wasn't Hacker News. I explained why I thought it was tangentially relevant. There was a discussion about that, but nobody suggested that I shouldn't have written the post, we were merely discussing whether it belonged in HN. I can understand the argument that meta-blogging doesn't belong in HN. But I don't believe it shouldn't be written in the first place.