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This post and other posts about datastar on the hn frontpage seem unnatural to me. It's like a marketing effort to astroturf this, especially with newly created
by mawadev 1y ago
This post and other posts about datastar on the hn frontpage seem unnatural to me. It's like a marketing effort to astroturf this, especially with newly created accounts interacting with this...
- cjs_ac 1y agoI'm using HTMX and had never heard of Datastar until today. I imagine there's a fair few people who saw the first post, looked into it and found other things about Datastar, and decided to post them.
- nchmy 1y agoThis and other negative, yet argument-free, comments about datastar are what seem unnatural to me...
- penultimatename 1y agoI thought the same before I saw your comment. Several posters are new or have also posted on previous posts about Datastar (and are oddly aggressive.)
- evilduck 1y agoYeah, why does hypermedia attract folks who always sound so aggressive? It's a weird but common theme.
- sarchertech 1y agoThat’s a common HN pattern. Someone posts something about “why I switched to x” and it inspires someone else to link to the the x website, or even to other similar projects websites, and they all make it to the front page. It’s just a common synergistic phenomenon.
- ksec 1y agoOne submitted by me, and this one by others, both accounts are ~2012. Not exactly new account.
- dang 1y agoI think it was probably the copycat/followup effect rather than anything coordinated, but I haven't looked closely. Trying to decide whether to merge the threads and/or which of them should 'win'...
- andersmurphy 1y agoIf the datastar team was capable of such a coordinated marketing effort I doubt they'd be in the business of running a non profit, or building a niche HTML streaming framework. Or having a one off purchase model for pro. I mean unless you consider me linking my dumb demos everytime someone accuses hypermedia of not being suitable for realtime/collaborative apps. That I'm 100% guilty of.