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[stub for offtopicness]
by tomhow 1y ago
[stub for offtopicness]
- catchcatchcatch 1y ago[dead]
- endorphine 1y agoIn my experience, nothing beats the puzzle quality of ChessTempo. Curious how this compares to that.
- krishnasangeeth 1y agoHi ,Congrats on the launch. I built a free iOS app also which has chess puzzles. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knighty-chess-puzzles/id6745241794 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knighty-chess-puzzles/id674524... Would appreciate feedback.
- avadhesh18 1y agoNice app, I dig the logo.
- krishnasangeeth 1y agoThanks man. I would also suggest creating a leaderboard with XP for gamification
- krishnasangeeth 1y agoHey , i would also suggest posting in r/chess
- avadhesh18 1y agoThanks man, I will definitely do that.
- atakan_gurkan 1y agoThis alternative: https://github.com/brianch/offline-chess-puzzles https://github.com/brianch/offline-chess-puzzles is linked from lichess puzzle page.
- avadhesh18 1y agoCan you please explain what it means? I have been using HN for years and only seeing this for the first time. Seems like some mod action but searching on google didn't return anything.
- chatmasta 1y agoYes, very strange and I was wondering why my comment which is on topic was added here… There are other comments which are clearly on-topic, e.g. direct feedback about the app, which have been relegated to this weird sub-thread. If this is a new feature, I’m not a fan of it. We have downvotes for off-topicness.
- ycombinete 1y agoI’ve seen dang do something similar before to clean up a thread of off topic comments.
- tomhow 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504071
- lucb1e 1y agoNote that the discussion continues in the collapsed comment by tomhow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499848 It says "stub for offtopicness" but, skimming them, literally all comments are on-topic. Not all substantial ('very nice app', 'whats the tech stack?') but a lot of other comments are a normal amount of substantial and also in there... I don't get it, but note that you can expand that subthread
- krishnasangeeth 1y agoI posted this ``` Hi ,Congrats on the launch. I built a free iOS app also which has chess puzzles. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knighty-chess-puzzles/id674524 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knighty-chess-puzzles/id674524... Would appreciate feedback. ``` Not sure if that's why it was moved to `stub for off topicness`. I wonder if it is some kind of categorisation logic based on text.
- lucb1e 1y agoI'm also wondering if it's an automatic classification. Wouldn't expect that on HN, but the posts in there are so random that it almost must be. As for that specific comment, to be fair, I could actually understand: promoting your own product in someone else's thread without really saying anything at all about the submission (topic) that was posted could be seen as off-topic. I don't really mind it (I don't think I voted on it), but I could see a human also classify it that way
- krishnasangeeth 1y agoYeah , that's fair. More than promotion i was trying to suggest i had also built something similar and kind of understand the product space. It's this dev thing, can't shake it off i guess. But i get what you meant. Apart from that i have a theory that there is a lot of ML based ranking and classification that is happening at the backend.
- nso 1y agoWhy would you in 2025 only build for iOS?
- 90s_dev 1y agoA bit off topic, but since you mentioned doing your best thinking in the bathroom, two things you should try are (a) no caffeine, and (b) no soy. These should dramatically cut down on the number of times you have to go and how long it takes.
- avadhesh18 1y agoI love my time there but thanks for your suggestion.