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Shouldn't your central location be your rss reader? Most of the projects you mention have low-traffic announce feeds that only post on release. You are basical
by olefoo 17y ago
Shouldn't your central location be your rss reader? Most of the projects you mention have low-traffic announce feeds that only post on release.
You are basically demanding that a scarce public resource (HN front page) be used up to satisfy a need you could take care of on your own.
It's kind of humbling to see the tragedy of the commons playing out so clearly here.
- yangyang 17y agoPerhaps I'm unusual, but I find the dicussion is often as interesting as the link (perhaps not for this item :-). And you don't get that on an announcements RSS feed.
- w1ntermute 17y agoIt is not just "my" need that is being satisfied. Clearly, at least 73 (the current number of votes) other hackers find this information (and like yangyang said, a place to converse about it) useful. The "scarce public resource" is being used in the way that would satisfy the needs of the largest number of hackers. That said, you needn't worry about HN being polluted with release notes. It just so happened that several major pieces of software had releases today. This is most definitely not a daily occurrence.