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Its mildly frustrating that I have to click a link to know whether it's something I would have wanted to click or not. Why not, "Mailvelope - OpenPGP encryptio
by 4k 12y ago
Its mildly frustrating that I have to click a link to know whether it's something I would have wanted to click or not.
Why not, "Mailvelope - OpenPGP encryption for webmail"?
- lnanek2 12y agoEven if you put a good title the HN mods tend to strip it to be more bland anyway. I'd much rather they just allow duplicate story submissions with different titles and let the crowd pick the best title with voting. They aren't doing a good job with staff enforced titles.
- MBCook 12y agoThey make it match the title of the destination page, and that's where the problem is. The destination page should have a better name.
- jtheory 12y agoAnother item for the endless startup checklist -- "is my landing page title informative enough to serve as an HN link?"
- saturdayplace 12y agoWhich is really just a more specific form of "Does my landing page actually tell newcomers what's actually going on here?"
- surye 12y agoExcept the title is barely visible in most browsers these days, where it has to fit in a tab.
- duckmysick 12y agoIf we go by this criterion, Y Combinator would've failed and Hacker News would've barely passed.
- gdilla 12y agoIt would have been better as a ShowHN post where the mods give you a lot of editorial leeway.
- sp332 12y agoThey haven't been doing that as much lately, especially if the original title was either uninformative or linkbaity.
- dang 12y agoWe're reluctant to make language up in titles, but since that phrase appears on their About page, it's fine and we've changed it.