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Same thing goes for open source projects. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen an announcement along the lines of “Flurboska 2.0 is released!” and then w
by natch 9y ago
Same thing goes for open source projects. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen an announcement along the lines of “Flurboska 2.0 is released!” and then when you follow the URL there’s no info about what it does, and if there’s an About link it often just has a list of release notes for various versions. Each entry says vague things like “stability improved” which doesn’t reveal much.
- stephengillie 9y agoMy comment from a recent thread about Sway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508993 /s/Flurboska/GenericPhrase "New version of Pandora Nexus released." Great - is this any relation to the 2 Pandoras or the several Nexuses? Does this play music on my phone or move assets into a VM? Neither, it syncs bookmarks between browsers.
- evincarofautumn 9y agoAlso, too much information is just as bad as not enough. I’ve seen many a project whose home page or README dives straight into technical jargon about it, telling me all about how it’s world-changing and completely unlike anything else, without explaining in one clear sentence what the thing is and why I might want to use it. You’ve got to hold my hand if you want to take me through a paradigm shift, or I’m going to assume your software is a Rube Goldberg contraption that doesn’t really do anything.