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I feel like this is a bit misleading. You say you weren’t aware of Threes at all when you made 2048, which may be technically true, but then you should probably
by MattRix 2y ago
I feel like this is a bit misleading. You say you weren’t aware of Threes at all when you made 2048, which may be technically true, but then you should probably clarify that 2048 was a clone of 1024 which was a clone of Threes. And this all happened within around a month of when Threes released… to the point where many people started accusing Threes of being a clone of 2048.
- doppp 2y agoLet it go, Matt.
- MattRix 2y ago[flagged]
- ziddoap 2y agoIt seems like you are piling on just to pile on, not simply "pointing out the origin". There's already 52 matches for "Threes" on this submission. I think we get it. The author of has added credits to Threes. You won!
- MattRix 2y ago[flagged]
- ziddoap 2y agoIf this was your only comment, I wouldn't have said anything. But you have 5 (now 6!) separate comment chains going on about Threes. In addition to the other 5 top-level comments, and ~20 replies that talk about Threes. All saying the same stuff. It's boring.
- MattRix 2y agoI didn't post any top level comments, I'm only correcting people who I see posting misinformation. Isn't the point of Hacker News for people to talk about things they have expertise in? This happens to be a situation I know a lot about since I was also a mobile puzzle game developer at the same time this happened.
- throwaway199956 2y agoBut the comments largely doesn't add anything further interesting to the discussion. Its been mentioned and spoken about ad nauseam.
- ziddoap 2y ago>Isn't the point of Hacker News for people to talk about things they have expertise in? No. Although that certainly can help, it's not the main point. From the guidelines: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Seeing the exact same thing posted about Threes in over half of the comments here is the opposite of gratifying one's intellectual curiosity. It's boring. Especially when the comment is just a slight rephrasing of a comment that's already been posted several times (or worse, solely a link to your own comment elsewhere in the submission).
- MattRix 2y ago[flagged]
- dang 2y agoPlease don't do this. 13 comments on this is too much, and (as is typical) they've gotten progressively more off-topic and flamewarrish. When people start arguing about what they did or didn't say, with swipes like "Oh come on," it's clear that curious conversation was left behind quite a while ago and it's time to stop.
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- torlok 2y agoHow about don't support people who profit off of cheap clones and "forget" to mention the original years later.
- rafram 2y agoCirulli never profited off of 2048, as far as I know. The iOS app that actually made money was a ripoff by someone else of his MIT-licensed code.