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Yet another HN title that says nothing about what lies on the other side of the link. "BlackBox: a new shipping company from the creators of Cards Against Huma
by oftenwrong 10y ago
Yet another HN title that says nothing about what lies on the other side of the link.
"BlackBox: a new shipping company from the creators of Cards Against Humanity"
Isn't that just a bit more descriptive?
- verroq 10y agoHow else are they going to bait you into clicking it?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- monokrome 10y agoBlackBox: A website designed to stimulate seizures
- Bluestrike2 10y agoI'd love to see the design brief just to see if that was the goal from the start or they just wound up there after playing on a SNES emulator or something. It's a crazy aesthetic, but a very pleasing sort of crazy in an overpowering way.
- ryanmcleod 10y agoRelevant to this one too ;P http://blackboxpuzzles.com/ http://blackboxpuzzles.com/
- SuperPaintMan 10y agoBlackBox: Art As A Service ( https://theblackbox.ca/hn.html https://theblackbox.ca/hn.html ) Damn, Blackbox is a excellently generic name. Had a heart attack seeing this on the front page. Blackbox should use Blackbox for shipping.
- creshal 10y agoBut do they use Blackbox? http://xwinman.org/blackbox.php http://xwinman.org/blackbox.php
- jmnicolas 10y agoMaybe they could add a subtitle field so we can keep the original title but have a more descriptive one if needed.
- smegel 10y agoWhat original title? The title was "Blackbox is a new shipping company from the creators of Cards Against Humanity". So someone breaks the rules to provide a less descriptive title. Must be the silly season on HN.
- Jaruzel 10y agoThere's the bookmarklet and everything! I think people who do this, are going for the 'lets be all mysterious about this link' - because yeah, we've all got time to click on random links that we may or may not be interested in... :)
- runeks 10y agoThey should enable voting on alternative titles. The most upvoted alternative title would then be displayed, optionally, on the front page next to the original title. I don't think we can rely on the author always choosing a descriptive title.
- capex 10y agoThe irony is its called Blackbox.
- biztos 10y agoFor a second there I was really hoping it was a return of the Blackbox Window Manager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbox
- busterarm 10y agoFluxbox is great though.
- Cerium 10y agoMe too! I use Blackbox for Windows (bbzero) in my Windows 7 machine. It works well once set up, have to put apps in launcher and add to desktop menu.
- michaeloblak 10y agoSame here!
- sandworm101 10y agoWhen I hear 'blackbox' I think an airplane has crashed.