Wait, this was a nice article. why are people complaining?

lightandlight 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I'm with you. Surprised by the negative reactions here.

A possible piece of the puzzle: I originally read the article on mobile, no issues. Then I opened it on my desktop, and found the design quite jarring. The margins are much too large for my taste, forcing the text into a single narrow column, and the header animations were distracting and disorienting (fortunately the page works perfectly with JavaScript disabled). Perhaps this triggered people?

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snek_case 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Without wanting to sound overly pessimistic, I subjectively feel like comments on Hacker News have become more negative and cynical over the last 10 years. It often seems like the prevailing attitude is "let me try and point to a perceived flaw" or "here is why this is not good enough" rather than being helpful or supportive... We're staying away from the hacker ethos IMO.

It's by no means a perfect article, but the general message seems to be that we're not powerless to build the web we want, and you can host your own website, which is still true.

	▲	GaryBluto an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Whenever I see something I like, I vote it. It feels awkward to me to type a bland show of praise when many other users have already done (and will continue to do) the same. When I see something I dislike or disagree with, I feel it easier to go into more detail as to why, as I rarely see people sharing similar criticisms. As a sidenote, people who just say "This." and "Cool." irk me, and I don't want to elicit the same annoyed reaction in others.

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65 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It says the same few things that always get hive mind upvoted on Hacker News. There is nothing new about this information.

Social media bad, Javascript bad, cars bad, old internet good, RSS good, personal websites good, HTML good.

If you want to farm upvotes on Hacker News, write about these topics. This content is like crack to developers.

	▲	dwa3592 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		while i agree with you; I also think that sound ideas are sound regardless. i don't think the negative comments are helpful at all. If people wanted new information, go read nature, science, cell. There's plenty of journals. HN is not for new information, it is for interesting information which allows refactored info imo.