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Man I actually feel like there’s no meat to this article at all - no offense to the author - but no conclusion or recommendation or much of anything seems to be

Man I actually feel like there’s no meat to this article at all - no offense to the author - but no conclusion or recommendation or much of anything seems to be reached by the end. It’s kind of just summarizing some opinions without judging or critiquing or evaluating them - all of their paragraphs just seem to add up to “to be fair, both sides have an understandable point, and may be correct in certain contexts” - and then the article moves onto the next header, under which the process repeats. Honestly I didn’t get much at all out of this, other than a fairly transparent attempt to drive traffic to their site, so readers would see them plug their own product. Am I the only one? Is this unnecessarily harsh?

dphuang2 3y ago
not harsh and not untrue :) But for context, the original intention of this article is to highlight opinions from the community. I feel that interleaving my own opinions would be untrue to the original intent.
- ranger_danger 3y ago
  I very much appreciated your article and the unbiased comparison, please don't stop doing these :) I think my only comment on it at the moment might be to show more usage of common scenarios between e.g. htmx vs other paradigms or frameworks.
  - dphuang2 3y ago
    Thanks for the kind comment! Glad you enjoy the content style—it takes a lot of time to gather comments. Hm, definitely interesting to have some inline example/resources, I can see examples augmenting the original opinions.
ranger_danger 3y ago
I think it could be viewed by some as a bit harsh. Maybe a better approach could have been to simply ask what the intended purpose was instead of guessing there was supposed to be a point you just weren't grasping? I do appreciate summarizing the pros and cons of things from a perspective of _actually_ trying to use all of them to accomplish a common goal though. I think they were just trying to not give a purely subjective opinion on their differences... and one could argue that this information might be useful to make one's own choice as to which solution to use for their next project. I didn't get the sense that they were trying to plug anything or drive traffic at all. I could also argue that merely linking to a blog post in the first place might be doing the same thing... but where should the line by drawn and who should the authority be on that?

dphuang2 3y ago

not harsh and not untrue :) But for context, the original intention of this article is to highlight opinions from the community. I feel that interleaving my own opinions would be untrue to the original intent.

ranger_danger 3y ago
I very much appreciated your article and the unbiased comparison, please don't stop doing these :) I think my only comment on it at the moment might be to show more usage of common scenarios between e.g. htmx vs other paradigms or frameworks.
- dphuang2 3y ago
  Thanks for the kind comment! Glad you enjoy the content style—it takes a lot of time to gather comments. Hm, definitely interesting to have some inline example/resources, I can see examples augmenting the original opinions.

ranger_danger 3y ago

I think it could be viewed by some as a bit harsh. Maybe a better approach could have been to simply ask what the intended purpose was instead of guessing there was supposed to be a point you just weren't grasping? I do appreciate summarizing the pros and cons of things from a perspective of _actually_ trying to use all of them to accomplish a common goal though. I think they were just trying to not give a purely subjective opinion on their differences... and one could argue that this information might be useful to make one's own choice as to which solution to use for their next project. I didn't get the sense that they were trying to plug anything or drive traffic at all. I could also argue that merely linking to a blog post in the first place might be doing the same thing... but where should the line by drawn and who should the authority be on that?