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meta: I noticed titles getting changed to something nonsensical more and more often on Hacker News. The current title is absolutely ridiculous, as it provides n
by roblabla 9y ago
meta: I noticed titles getting changed to something nonsensical more and more often on Hacker News. The current title is absolutely ridiculous, as it provides no value.
I know that the title is supposed to match the submission, but there are cases where a custom title makes much more sense, and provides a lot more value to the community.
- petercooper 9y agoIt is what it is, alas, though a side effect is I check HN more often as titles often get less useful as time wears on so it's good to see them when they could catch my interest.
- kbenson 9y agoIn this case, a link to the announcement post[1] would have been a better submission, and the title of that post is "Welcome to the Swift Forums". It's not perfect, but that, combines with the first sentence or two from the post gives a pretty clear indication of why someone might consider it noteworthy (it's a new forum), although others I'm sure would not. 1: https://forums.swift.org/t/welcome-to-the-swift-forums/8 https://forums.swift.org/t/welcome-to-the-swift-forums/8