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There is a tumblr called 'ourincrediblejourneyDOTtumblrDOTcom' which tells a long tale of users left in the cold. Interesting: when I try to post that link as
by rfreytag 12y ago
There is a tumblr called 'ourincrediblejourneyDOTtumblrDOTcom' which tells a long tale of users left in the cold.
Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why?
- anon1385 12y ago>Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why? Because it's a site calling out the user-screwing acquisitions that Y-Combinator exists to make money from.
- edmack 12y agoYC's focus is long term. Great products over long term require real compassion for your users. User-screwing acquisitions are usually acquihires and low return.
- temuze 12y agoHN automatically blocks Tumblr
- dang 12y agoBecause it was funny the first few dozen times, but around the 500th occasion that someone stuck in his thumb and pulled out that particular plum, I had a fit of pique and wrote a line of code to kill it. What was I thinking? I'll drop everything and restore it. I'm also going to detach this subthread and mark it off-topic. (p.s. I don't mean 500 literally. It's a stand-in for "the number at which I snapped".)
- rfreytag 12y agodang, thanks for the explanation. I think you should keep the piqued code in so that we can go 'meta' and have 500 submissions about why an overused meme is dead. :-) I probably should read the HN FAQ again - its been quite a long while.
- instakill 12y agoThat's interesting - I've never come across it. Thanks for the explanation.