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My immediate impression when I saw a list of past HN stories in this case was a sense of "everything had been said and done, over and over" and I was about to a
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
My immediate impression when I saw a list of past HN stories in this case was a sense of "everything had been said and done, over and over" and I was about to add my submission for Beaker's 1.0 release of a month ago because I felt the list didn't sufficiently tell the narrative of steady progress over the years. I ended up not to when I noticed you just picked the submissions having significant engagement, or the ones coming from straight from beakerbrowser or pfraze.
I guess adding links to past stories (at least when not posted by you dang) can signal different things; in this case, maybe including the title may have changed my first impression.
- dang 6y agoYes, it's a frustratingly hard problem. I want a way to supply links to past discussions that communicates clearly: "this is just a list of additional things that some of you may be interested in and if you aren't that's cool and this is a fine post and don't worry everything's great!"... except brief. I thought If curious see also would do it—but apparently it doesn't quite land that way with everybody. You're right that when I post those I filter the list for only the most engaging discussions, because HN readers don't like clicking on things and being taken to something not-so-interesting. Unfortunately that makes it a bit harder to write software to come up with just the right ones.