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Posting a link from an article on the front page is something we have to stop doing. This was a link from another article currently on the front page (link http

by niggler 14y ago

Posting a link from an article on the front page is something we have to stop doing. This was a link from another article currently on the front page (link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224954 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224954 and post referring to it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 ).

doormatt 14y ago
Why? I may never have found this link unless someone had posted it to the front, as I don't have time to read through ALL the articles.
- niggler 14y ago
  Had you looked at the front page in the past hour you would have seen the original article (and if you looked in the first page of the article you would see the reference) I can appreciate your argument if the article weren't at the top page, but when this post was submitted the other post was on the front (and still is). This behavior reduces the diversity of the top page.
- Surio 14y ago
  FYI, you might find this useful: http://rewindhn.com/ http://rewindhn.com/
  - doormatt 14y ago
    Thanks!
danso 14y ago
OK, I'll explain why I submitted this. I read the blogpost (but not all of the HN discussion). The mention of Chocolate Duke3D was prominent in the blogpost but was something I wouldn't have looked into had I not had the time to read to the bottom of the post, which is often the case. That said, I figured other people are in that same boat. But more importantly than that, I think the quality of the project deserves the extra (if redundant) spotlight. The blog post in its own is a great read, but the author went way beyond a normal open-source contribution by improving and making convenient a large section of archaic, clunky code. This is an incredibly cool, well-intentioned project...someone devoted his time to doing the kind of work that programmers hate to do for their own in-production code, with the goal of educating...and the code repo and the good-willed spirit behind it deserves the attention.

by niggler 14y ago

doormatt 14y ago

Why? I may never have found this link unless someone had posted it to the front, as I don't have time to read through ALL the articles.

niggler 14y ago
Had you looked at the front page in the past hour you would have seen the original article (and if you looked in the first page of the article you would see the reference) I can appreciate your argument if the article weren't at the top page, but when this post was submitted the other post was on the front (and still is). This behavior reduces the diversity of the top page.
Surio 14y ago
FYI, you might find this useful: http://rewindhn.com/ http://rewindhn.com/
- doormatt 14y ago
  Thanks!

danso 14y ago

OK, I'll explain why I submitted this. I read the blogpost (but not all of the HN discussion). The mention of Chocolate Duke3D was prominent in the blogpost but was something I wouldn't have looked into had I not had the time to read to the bottom of the post, which is often the case. That said, I figured other people are in that same boat. But more importantly than that, I think the quality of the project deserves the extra (if redundant) spotlight. The blog post in its own is a great read, but the author went way beyond a normal open-source contribution by improving and making convenient a large section of archaic, clunky code. This is an incredibly cool, well-intentioned project...someone devoted his time to doing the kind of work that programmers hate to do for their own in-production code, with the goal of educating...and the code repo and the good-willed spirit behind it deserves the attention.