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Why is this on the front page? This isn't news, innovative, attractive, useful... none of the above. This is basically a tumblr of theme photos that have affi

Why is this on the front page? This isn't news, innovative, attractive, useful... none of the above. This is basically a tumblr of theme photos that have affiliate links to make you money. This is just an affiliate landing page with a wood texture. And as somebody who spends thousands a year on TF, this site is not useful to me. Sorry, just... this doesn't seem like Hacker News to me.

bootload 15y ago
"... Why is this on the front page? This isn't news, innovative, attractive, useful... none of the above ...this doesn't seem like Hacker News to me." You've been here for 25 days and yet your sure this article isn't worthy? I've been stumbling around for 1797 days and I still can't work out exactly what articles are "interesting to hackers" [0] Here's a hint. I find it interesting because @polyfractal displays a "HN" favourite, showing, instead of telling. If you've got experience using TF do @polyfractal a favour and explain why, instead of venting? The backbone of HN is hackers building something, showing, getting some useful feedback & rebuilding. Lead the way. [0] "What to submit" ~ http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- justindocanto 15y ago
  I've been reading HN for almost 2 years now. I just recently made an account to comment. As somebody who has beenprogramming for 5 years & has been an avid user of theme forest for the last year... i still dont find this front page worthy, down vote or not. Somebody scraping a site and making a less useful and less attractive version is not news to me. Websites like this making the front page on Hacker News make it equally as interesting & useful to me as say... Pintrest. Had envato sold Theme Forest, ok... that's front news worthy. But a thin, scraped, less useful version of a site that already exists? I continue to hold my stance.
  - nedwin 15y ago
    I actually find this more useful. I've spent countless hours trolling through trying to find .psd templates, admin panels, keynote templates and quick and dirty Wordpress themes for MVP's. This will greatly reduce the friction in scouring all of the files. Seems like I'm not the only one who has found it useful and interesting.

bootload 15y ago

"... Why is this on the front page? This isn't news, innovative, attractive, useful... none of the above ...this doesn't seem like Hacker News to me." You've been here for 25 days and yet your sure this article isn't worthy? I've been stumbling around for 1797 days and I still can't work out exactly what articles are "interesting to hackers" [0] Here's a hint. I find it interesting because @polyfractal displays a "HN" favourite, showing, instead of telling. If you've got experience using TF do @polyfractal a favour and explain why, instead of venting? The backbone of HN is hackers building something, showing, getting some useful feedback & rebuilding. Lead the way. [0] "What to submit" ~ http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

justindocanto 15y ago
I've been reading HN for almost 2 years now. I just recently made an account to comment. As somebody who has beenprogramming for 5 years & has been an avid user of theme forest for the last year... i still dont find this front page worthy, down vote or not. Somebody scraping a site and making a less useful and less attractive version is not news to me. Websites like this making the front page on Hacker News make it equally as interesting & useful to me as say... Pintrest. Had envato sold Theme Forest, ok... that's front news worthy. But a thin, scraped, less useful version of a site that already exists? I continue to hold my stance.
- nedwin 15y ago
  I actually find this more useful. I've spent countless hours trolling through trying to find .psd templates, admin panels, keynote templates and quick and dirty Wordpress themes for MVP's. This will greatly reduce the friction in scouring all of the files. Seems like I'm not the only one who has found it useful and interesting.