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Linking to your own blog isn’t disallowed, and in fact “write a blog post about the thing and then link to that” is the right way to handle this. I think the r
by akerl_ 5y ago
Linking to your own blog isn’t disallowed, and in fact “write a blog post about the thing and then link to that” is the right way to handle this.
I think the rule that may be tripping you up is “Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.”
That rule is focused on avoiding self-promotion. For example, if you’re working on a cool new idea, don’t just post a new link to your site once a week. But writing a blog post to dig into an element of something Typora has changed is pretty clearly fine.
- andybak 5y agoThanks. In that case I think the rule is mostly fine. At least it would be if there was better options for micro-blogging on the spur of the moment ;-)
- helmholtz 5y agoI hope that last sentence was sarcastic. I fucking detest microblogging. Oh wow, thanks Seth Godin! Your trite and clichéd 1-paragraph was so non-obvious and original! Definitely not something anyone else has ever thought of before! And thank you from sparing me all nuance, context, and the need for fleshing out an argument in any detail! No no, just what I needed this morning was an even lower signal to noise.