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OK, time to give Coding Horror the xkcd treatment. Jeff Atwood has repeatedly said he's writing to the 80% programmers, the kind that don't read programming bl

OK, time to give Coding Horror the xkcd treatment. Jeff Atwood has repeatedly said he's writing to the 80% programmers, the kind that don't read programming blogs (especially not Hacker News). Unless there's something exceptional (like the FizzBuzz firestorm), please just let us read it on RSS. Repeated from my comments at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88817 We get it, [Coding Horror] is [Informational]. Enough [articles] have been posted that people who didn't know about it know about it now. Not every single [article] needs to be posted - that's what RSS is for. Thanks, and I do appreciate you making sure YCNews readers are aware of [Coding Horror]. I'm a subscriber and a fan, so please don't interpret this as criticism, just the kinder side of a social news site.

mechanical_fish 19y ago
I disagree with this whole line of thinking. The most important reason to continue submitting xkcd and Coding Horror links to news.yc is the comments. When I see an interesting article come in over RSS, I often click over to news.yc to see what the folks here have to say about it. Smart people read this site. By contrast, I almost never read the comments on Coding Horror itself. I don't know that crowd. Secondly, it's easy to just skim past the Coding Horror and xkcd links. It's not like they take up more than two lines on the news.yc page. It's not like news.yc has a thirty-second load time when you click the "next page" button. Thirdly, these sites have limited traffic. It's not as if xkcd will suddenly explode and generate 50 posts per day, all of which will be submitted to news.yc. Finally, everyone is a newbie once. There are several sites that I've been introduced to by seeing them cited repeatedly on news.yc. I think it's foolish to assume that people "can just read Site X on RSS": how do I know that site X exists and is worthy of a spot in my RSS feeds unless I see it getting recommended over and over by smart people?
- rms 19y ago
  this would be my +10 of the day

mechanical_fish 19y ago

I disagree with this whole line of thinking. The most important reason to continue submitting xkcd and Coding Horror links to news.yc is the comments. When I see an interesting article come in over RSS, I often click over to news.yc to see what the folks here have to say about it. Smart people read this site. By contrast, I almost never read the comments on Coding Horror itself. I don't know that crowd. Secondly, it's easy to just skim past the Coding Horror and xkcd links. It's not like they take up more than two lines on the news.yc page. It's not like news.yc has a thirty-second load time when you click the "next page" button. Thirdly, these sites have limited traffic. It's not as if xkcd will suddenly explode and generate 50 posts per day, all of which will be submitted to news.yc. Finally, everyone is a newbie once. There are several sites that I've been introduced to by seeing them cited repeatedly on news.yc. I think it's foolish to assume that people "can just read Site X on RSS": how do I know that site X exists and is worthy of a spot in my RSS feeds unless I see it getting recommended over and over by smart people?

rms 19y ago
this would be my +10 of the day