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It's not being blacklisted or censored (see other comment with link to submissions). My suspicion: it's not relevant to the HN audience. DF is opinion pieces (
by throwaway_0501 2y ago
It's not being blacklisted or censored (see other comment with link to submissions).
My suspicion: it's not relevant to the HN audience. DF is opinion pieces (mostly) about Apple. While I'm sure many DF readers use some Apple device(s), I suspect many (most?) DF readers do not care about "inside baseball"[0] for Apple.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_baseball_(metaphor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_baseball_(metaphor)
- f30e3dfed1c9 2y agoThis is it for me. I've been using macs since 1985 (!) but I just don't think that blog is very interesting. From what I've seen, you're right that it's mostly Apple "inside baseball" and I just don't care.
- Eric_WVGG 2y agoUnlikely. “Rotten in Cupertino” was a bombshell and this forum should have been where the most insightful discussion took place. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348891
- erickhill 2y ago100%. But if Gruber/Daringfireball are even shown for a split second, there's a kneejerk reaction to flag it before the flagger even often reads it. It's a shame.
- detaro 2y agoa "bombshell" for the bubble of Apple-superfans, shocked that their high priest is criticizing Apple, maybe. For the rest of the world?
- rchaud 2y agoA 'bombshell' to me would include some original journalism, details we weren't otherwise aware of. I read that article, it is basically an essay about a guy realizing that the pedestal he puts Apple on may need some recalibration, just because their AI product sucks. Apple Maps in 2011 sucked too, the company is not immune to putting out crap.
- xcrunner529 2y agoAs opposed to slop on medium and nautil.us constantly posted here lol. (or wikipedia)
- jgruber 2y agoHow then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025?
- runjake 2y agoDon’t ask them. The only one who can give you a sure answer is @dang . My guess is that HN users flag the hell out of DF submissions for whatever reason, and that causes the so-called graylisting. But again only @dang can give you a straight answer. If you prefer email, Dan can be reached at hn@ycombinator.com. He seems like a friendly guy.
- owebmaster 2y ago[flagged]
- jgruber 2y agoWhat exactly do you think my "tactics" were/are? I've only ever submitted one article of my own to Hacker News. This one.
- owebmaster 2y agothe content in the blog is yours, no? So people posting things that would cause flame wars from your domain is still your responsibility? At some point people stop engaging to disagree and start to flag. Your karma doesn't reflect the score expected from the blogger behind the top #3 website of HN. This should tell us something. Supporting a monopoly like Apple will sure attract a lot of detractors in a forum named "hacker news". The same would happen to Microsoft supporters 20 years ago.
- kemayo 2y ago> Your karma doesn't reflect the score expected from the blogger behind the top #3 website of HN. This should tell us something. Karma's a reflection of how much someone uses HN. Glancing at his account, it looks like he has never submitted anything before this article, and almost never comments. That account having low karma doesn't really tell us anything about him, beyond that he's not a HN regular.