HN Criticism Culture

Guess that is what happens when the lead developer makes comments like this:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19425361

It scales better than complaining on Hacker News.

Unfortunately, you just described most of the tech blog posts posted on HN/elsewhere. It's a very big problem :-(

I'm totally in favor for more positivity. It is very easy to criticize something when you don't know what is happening on the other side. HN is a place for Hackers to discuss facts and not to imply what they think others think. If two comparisons differ, there might be several reasons as lack of trials on both sides or lack of a common ground for comparison but a lot here are doing their best to make lives of developers easier.

Ignore the down votes, I agree with you 100%.These guys have tried really hard to do something complicated nobody has really done before. Sure, it has a few bugs and isn't 'perfect'. Neither was the space shuttle, neither was the HTML 1.0 spec. Nothing ever is.It's currently in style to put down tall poppies and complain about everything and anything, even when it's free and you don't even have to use it if you don't want to.A community like Hacker News should be praising people trying

Hot takes without sincerely exploring the problem space. Benefits, not discussed. Tradeoffs, none mentioned. I figured it was a junior dev, but i see posts from the author since 2007. Id be willing to revisit if the depth/quality is also revisited.

You've made similar comments before [1] which were overstated at the time, do you have some github issues you can link to that clearly show what you're saying?1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15460382

The opposite take, delivered with humor [need to hide HN referrer]: http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/

What's with the pollyanna stuff on HN around this obvious failure? There isn't one thing going well here, but I keep seeing HN comments acting like writing it off is some kind of moral crime. It was a bad idea and it's failing. Could they turn it around, sure I suppose, anything is possible. But right now it's not looking so hot. It's not a big deal to say that.

You're referring to the YAML point? The way I read it, it sounds like the poster only learned about the issue when they ran into it during development. That being said, a couple of specific complaints is probably not the best argument against a broader platform.