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- lawgimenez 2y agoThe description is in the documentation. What’s the trouble by clicking on it? It won’t take a second.
- dr_kretyn 2y agoI don't know whether it's going to take a second or half a minute. I also don't know whether there will be an answer on the first page, or there's going to be a cute image and then I'll need to find "Getting Started" to learn how to get started with unknown project. My subjective experience on the internet is that if the gate isn't labelled, there's unlikely value on the other side.
- tptacek 2y agoPeople who are interested in this are talking about it because they're interested in it. Nobody is trying to convert you.
- abenga 2y agoPeople who are interested in things learn about them at different times. You make it seem like it's "learn about it at the outset or gtfo".
- halostatue 2y agoAnd it might be that next month there's a different homepage with more details. For a launch where all "marketing" has been via blog post, discord, and discussions across various nerdy social media sites…I'm more than happy for them to have some fun to celebrate this. There are people who have been watching this for a few months waiting for it to go 1.0 — and, at least on day 1, "if you know, you know."
- lawgimenez 2y agoWhatever dude, you hating because of a missing label on the intro page.
- twoparachute45 2y ago> I don't know whether it's going to take a second or half a minute. You know how you could find out how long it's going to take? By clicking the button. It's free. It's easy. Hell, it would've taken you less time to click that single button and read the first sentence than it would have taken you to post this comment. You didn't even bother to spend half a second actually opening the documentation page and then you come here complaining about how you don't know whats in the documentation. This is entirely a problem of your own creation. What gives?
- reanimus 2y ago> I hate things in "if you know then you know" category. This is one of them. > Documentation? Reading a manual for an unknown thing? Well. Yes? Maybe I'm assuming too much, but I feel like the target audience here (terminal emulator 'enthusiasts') either know about this already or are totally willing to go over to the manual to read what it is. The very first section upon opening the documentation explains it succinctly: Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
- chooma 2y agoI wouldn't word it that strongly, however I would've like to see the first line of the documention on the homepage :) I'll give it a spin later, looks interesting.
- mitchellh 2y agoThis isn't a company, I'm not trying to convince you to use it, this is more of a personal art project. If that doesn't vibe with you that's completely fine. You're happy to not use it. I'm happy whether you use it or not. It's all good mate. (The first sentence in the docs page does explain what it is but if that's too much for you, it's all good.)
- dr_kretyn 2y agoFair. And I'm not here to convince you to cater to everyone. The explanation might be on the first page of the doc, but unless you click on it, you won't know. My prior experience is that docs don't necessarily tell "what" but rather "how" which means that you need to know why you're there. Their weight also varies. Thus, I learned to not speculate how many clicks and real time it's going to take me to learn about the project. If the author doesn't want me to know it, I won't be digging into it. I enjoy personal projects and if you're saying that this is your personal - all the best! Given high praise count it's likely very good.
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- Udo 2y ago> You're happy to not use it. I'm happy whether you use it or not. I think you misunderstood the OP. The criticism was about the landing page, not the project. And fwiw, it's not unwarranted. Putting the words "terminal emulator" somewhere on the page would make less people bounce off. You may be fine with them bouncing off, but still, I think it was meant as constructive criticism.
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- uncomplexity_ 2y agojust different tastes i guess midjourney still has the same thing on their homepage and i dig it
- __rito__ 2y agoWell, it is named GhosTTY. TTY being in the end, it is a terminal emulator. That's obvious to me. Just like AlacriTTY, PuTTY, KiTTY, etc.
- metaltyphoon 2y agoI swear this makes 1000% sense but it never occurred to me before.
- boomboomsubban 2y agoI thought it was some modern cowsay with a ghost in the tty.
- zug_zug 2y agoYeah I agree. To me the "If you know you know" mentality is a negative signal about something, suggesting that something is possibly seen as cool/trendy (which is a negative signal against being the most practical/utilitarian/unsexy solution).
- crystaln 2y agoYeah I was wondering why there’s an ascii animation at #1 on HN. Flash back to 2008.
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- dang 2y agoCan you please greet the things that are unfamiliar to you in a more welcoming spirit? At least as long as you're posting here. What we want on this site (other sites may differ) is a spirit of curiosity [1]. If you post in a "you're doing it wrong" or "you're not providing me with the information I deserve" spirit, that not only isn't the curiosity we're hoping for, it dampens the entire thread for everybody. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... Edit: I just saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42519739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42519739, which means you already covered the point, but I'll leave this up pour encourager les autres.