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"In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS!" It seems unfortunate that opening a PR requires having npm installed.
by akkartik 3y ago
"In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS!"
It seems unfortunate that opening a PR requires having npm installed.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoSeems fair though. Given how adversarial the web is with botspam, you basically need some form of bot mitigation. GitHub does a decent enough job, and has the nice feature of being easy to migrate off, since git itself is designed to be decentralized.
- akkartik 3y agoI don't quite follow. I don't have a problem with git or Github. I just don't happen to have npm installed.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoAh nevermind, I misunderstood how it worked.
- surprisetalk 3y agoOpening a PR doesn't actually require npm! The npm script is just supposed to save a few keystrokes :) I'll update the readme to reflect that