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Right? What is this, reddit?

• Operyl 7y ago
  > Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. Furthermore, sure, it gets resubmitted but things on the internet change, new people are in the community, etc. Resubmissions over the course of a few years are bound to happen, the original comment was just linking previous conversations.
  • bityard 7y ago
    Then maybe it would be more appropriate for the poster to link to a blog article or some such which states what's been going on with LFS lately. Just linking to the main page doesn't really accomplish anything when the overwhelming majority of HN readers probably already know what LFS is. It's been around for 20 years, that the project exists isn't news. And the name of this site is, as it happens, Hacker _News_. /rant
• dang 7y ago
  Reposts are ok on HN if a story hasn't had significant attention in about a year. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We post links to past discussions just to satisfy curious readers. It's great if others do that too! Just make sure that there are interesting comments to read at the other end of the link, since otherwise clicking on it is a no-op.