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When posting old pages/articles it may help if the OP explained why they are sharing on HN. Is there a particular question it answers? Is there some development
by kdkirsch 3y ago
When posting old pages/articles it may help if the OP explained why they are sharing on HN. Is there a particular question it answers? Is there some development that has made the article more or less useful/accurate? A comment would help guide additional comments.
- eimrine 3y agoInternet was a heaven in 2007.
- tannhaeuser 3y agoThen HTML5 and Google/Chrome devs taking over the Internet happened.
- calebegg 3y agoI don't disagree with you but I did find the linked article very interesting to read absent any context.
- layer8 3y agoThe reason why the submitter found it interesting doesn’t need to be the same as why the upvoters found it interesting.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoI wholeheartedly agree, but I do appreciate it when submitters leave a top-level comment alongside the submission. There's no need for it to be special in any way, but it can help seed discussion IMO.
- paulddraper 3y agoTypically on HN people talk about whatever they want, no set agenda.
- chefandy 3y agoI see most internet forums as discussion groups where posts start out as invitations to conversation. However, I see HN more like a physical bulletin board in a workplace break room where people post whatever, whenever, and others passively view, interact with, or discuss it as they see fit.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoI actually like this, also in cases where users sometimes post a submission that relates to some previous discussion, but does not require the context of said discussion but are interesting on their own
- moritzwarhier 3y agoI actually like this, also in cases where users sometimes post a submission that relates to some previous discussion, but does not require the context of said discussion to be interesting.
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- kosasbest 3y ago> When posting old pages/articles it may help if the OP explained why they are sharing on HN I submitted this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341492 The site in question is: https://esif.dev/ https://esif.dev/ I'm doing what @dang suggested: > The audience here is sympathetic to this topic, of course—but lists don't make great HN submissions. It would be better to pick the most interesting / least known thing on the list and submit that instead. I'm picking some URLs from that list, this is one of them.