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This would significantly degrade the HN experience for me for two reasons. Firstly it would make submission titles much longer and therefore make the hn page le
by seanhunter 5y ago
This would significantly degrade the HN experience for me for two reasons. Firstly it would make submission titles much longer and therefore make the hn page less compact. Secondly it would open the door to editorializing in the submission title, which is generally undesireable.
In this specific instance, terraform is not exactly an obscure piece of tech. Do you really think your suggested title is an improvement?
- jbgreer 5y agoI also prefer shorter titles. Do you consider my suggested title editorializing? If so, how?
- seanhunter 5y agoI'm not saying your title was, just that people posting titles would often struggle to keep them neutral. This would be especially the case in topics that tend to be hot-button areas for HN such as privacy, anything to do with US politics, free speech vs platform moderation etc.
- jbgreer 5y agoAlso, with respect to your comment "Terraform is not exactly obscure tech": you're right. Google estimates there are "About 14,200,000 results". My desire for context is not only to address obscurity, but also disambiguation. Perhaps Terraform is not the best example. That said, without checking, did you know what FizzyGum is? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421401 Kindly note the top comment and responses.