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I was referring to the fact of imitating the HN brand by capitalizing on the domain name so they could scoop up all the traffic and SEO love. That's why the dom
by ccnafr 8y ago
I was referring to the fact of imitating the HN brand by capitalizing on the domain name so they could scoop up all the traffic and SEO love. That's why the domain was banned to begin with a few years back. There was a whole discussion about it.
- rando444 8y agoThe site that I was referring to was literally hackernews.com, and was very popular among the tech crowd from the late 90s onward. (long before YC was conceived) ALmost 20 years ago, I used to rotate between hacker news, fark, and slashdot to get my daily dose of internet. https://web.archive.org/web/*/hackernews.com https://web.archive.org/web/*/hackernews.com One would be perfectly justified in also trying to claim that the name here was stolen from the original. .. but sometimes, just because things share a common name, does not necessarily mean they are related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
- ccnafr 8y agoNot that one. That's owned by Space Rogue. I'm talking about the one linked now, owned by some Indians who keep copying articles off other sites. There was a reason this got banned years ago. At one point you could trace articles from The Register and Motherboard paragraph by paragraph to their stories, but with bad grammar and bad sentence structure.