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Trying to prove? I'm trying to get feedback and input on this project. Any feedback is good :)


The vitriol on this thread is surprising and disappointing, but I can reassure you that it's also uninformed: re-posting things that have received little or no discussion, after some decent interval, is a norm on HN and is encouraged.

It would be a bad idea to post this story again in another month, but your last post got no comments at all, so this is presumably totally legit.


tptacek is right: totally legit. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

The reason is that there's so much randomness in what gets seen on /newest and thus gets a chance at the front page. Allowing a few rolls of the dice is a way of mitigating that randomness and increasing the best posts' chance at getting attention, which is a top priority here. So we don't penalize reposts as dupes until that happens.

Edit: please don't take the pushback personally. JavaScript fatigue and framework fatigue have become trends over the last year or so. That's probably why the discussion is a bit more cranky than the median. Criticisms like 'ego' are totally out of line; neutral questions like "What problem does this solve" are of course fine.


It's somewhat ironic that your comment was also posted twice. :)

FWIW, I don't disapprove of you submitting this twice. I, like most people, did not see the original submission, so why not.




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