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Mods, any chance you can give a boost to the launch coverage that is NOT from TC, but from a bit more relevant and notable source? Here's one from Ars, which h

Mods, any chance you can give a boost to the launch coverage that is NOT from TC, but from a bit more relevant and notable source? Here's one from Ars, which had an excellent space coverage for ages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364529

dang 6y ago
I don't see anything wrong with people posting TechCrunch articles to HN. All these sites have their downsides and different users have different preferences. But this is a duplicate of an earlier thread, so we'll move the comments thither. It's always worth changing the URL to a better source, though, so maybe we'll use your URL on that one. Edit: it doesn't seem particularly substantive to me either. So far I haven't seen an article that seems good enough to swap out the main URL at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23361987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23361987, even though that livestream is past its best-before date.
- huhtenberg 6y ago
  For what it's worth and from where I'm sitting TC pretty much lost all of its edge post-Arrington. It's now a mediocre source of regurgitated news on ridiculously formatted pages with one of the longest list of 3rd party trackers across all news sites. It's just... junk. The live stream video should indeed be THE main thread for the event, no argument there. It was just jarring to see it mid-page and the TC thread sitting at the first spot.
  - dang 6y ago
    Yeah, that's an artifact of the livestream spanning many hours while the lifespan of HN submissions being measured in hours, so by the time the big moment happened the thread was already halfway down the page. I've rolled back the clock on the submission now to accommodate that. I hear you about TC and will pay a bit more attention to that in the future, but really we judge this by article quality rather than site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%20%22article%20quality%22%20%22site%20quality%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), so your best bet is always to propose a significantly better, specific article. I'd have been happy to use the AT one instead, but it has other problems: its first half is a photo collection, which is ok in principle but raises other issues which I can explain if anyone cares; and its second half swerves sharply into a political direction that would likely act as flamebait here.
- beefman 6y ago
  Howabout this https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon/ https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-fr...
  - dang 6y ago
    Ok, we'll give it a try. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364765. Thanks!

dang 6y ago

I don't see anything wrong with people posting TechCrunch articles to HN. All these sites have their downsides and different users have different preferences. But this is a duplicate of an earlier thread, so we'll move the comments thither. It's always worth changing the URL to a better source, though, so maybe we'll use your URL on that one. Edit: it doesn't seem particularly substantive to me either. So far I haven't seen an article that seems good enough to swap out the main URL at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23361987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23361987, even though that livestream is past its best-before date.

huhtenberg 6y ago
For what it's worth and from where I'm sitting TC pretty much lost all of its edge post-Arrington. It's now a mediocre source of regurgitated news on ridiculously formatted pages with one of the longest list of 3rd party trackers across all news sites. It's just... junk. The live stream video should indeed be THE main thread for the event, no argument there. It was just jarring to see it mid-page and the TC thread sitting at the first spot.
- dang 6y ago
  Yeah, that's an artifact of the livestream spanning many hours while the lifespan of HN submissions being measured in hours, so by the time the big moment happened the thread was already halfway down the page. I've rolled back the clock on the submission now to accommodate that. I hear you about TC and will pay a bit more attention to that in the future, but really we judge this by article quality rather than site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%20%22article%20quality%22%20%22site%20quality%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), so your best bet is always to propose a significantly better, specific article. I'd have been happy to use the AT one instead, but it has other problems: its first half is a photo collection, which is ok in principle but raises other issues which I can explain if anyone cares; and its second half swerves sharply into a political direction that would likely act as flamebait here.
beefman 6y ago
Howabout this https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon/ https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-fr...
- dang 6y ago
  Ok, we'll give it a try. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364765. Thanks!