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Why does the HN crowd love to leave comments of mean criticism as if it was certain the creator of the submitted site wasn't going to see it? You can levy criti

by hoten 3y ago

Why does the HN crowd love to leave comments of mean criticism as if it was certain the creator of the submitted site wasn't going to see it? You can levy critique without being rude. Not many are doing this, but it doesn't take much. Maybe letting harsher-than-necessary criticism wash over you is necessary for putting any creation out into the world, but it still feels bad to see. This is why people outside this community often dislike their work being shared here, or at least refuse to read the comments.

doublerabbit 3y ago
The HN crowd are mainly developers who feel that their opinion is strictly correct with no leeway; as per developer culture. If it's not Apple, Go or Rust; or some ten-story sandwich stack of cobbled together libraries, it's deemed trash. Don't you dare mention Java. But what do I know, I'm just a sysadmin after-all. Everything is full-cycle cynicism to me; tomorrow we will be bitching about SPA's again and praising some new reinvented library. Bring back ActiveX and JavaApplets. I'm sure I'll get some "deemed worthy" downvotes for this comment; and I think I need more tequila.
- baranul 3y ago
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mardifoufs 3y ago
Especially for an article about... PWAs. It's so weird to be this worked up about this, like sure maybe they suck but that's not the point of the article. It's like getting mad at someone for writing a c++ article because it's not a memory safe language... like... okay!
ryan29 3y ago
A lot of the criticism seems to be about the UI and the site is about functionality that's available. It doesn't make sense to criticize the implementation details in my opinion. It's disappointing because this site was one of the rare occasions I emailed the link to myself so I can add it to my list of things I want to look at. Having a concise demo of PWA functionality that exists is very useful.

by hoten 3y ago

doublerabbit 3y ago

The HN crowd are mainly developers who feel that their opinion is strictly correct with no leeway; as per developer culture. If it's not Apple, Go or Rust; or some ten-story sandwich stack of cobbled together libraries, it's deemed trash. Don't you dare mention Java. But what do I know, I'm just a sysadmin after-all. Everything is full-cycle cynicism to me; tomorrow we will be bitching about SPA's again and praising some new reinvented library. Bring back ActiveX and JavaApplets. I'm sure I'll get some "deemed worthy" downvotes for this comment; and I think I need more tequila.

baranul 3y ago
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mardifoufs 3y ago

Especially for an article about... PWAs. It's so weird to be this worked up about this, like sure maybe they suck but that's not the point of the article. It's like getting mad at someone for writing a c++ article because it's not a memory safe language... like... okay!

ryan29 3y ago

A lot of the criticism seems to be about the UI and the site is about functionality that's available. It doesn't make sense to criticize the implementation details in my opinion. It's disappointing because this site was one of the rare occasions I emailed the link to myself so I can add it to my list of things I want to look at. Having a concise demo of PWA functionality that exists is very useful.