But if we're to optimize HN for intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), we have to consider thread quality, and there's no doubt that submissions like this generally lead to generic, and therefore shallow, discussion in the way that I described upthread.
Overall I think the best way for HN readers to discover a site like this is bottom-up: to run across an example of a great article and a great thread about it, and then click around to discover what else is there. This is more in the intended spirit of HN.
Edit: it's a little unorthodox for us to change the URL in midstream after a submission has this many upvotes and pre-existing comments, but I hope everyone understands that I did so to give the site more exposure and appreciation, not less. The alternative would have been to downweight the post as a "list submission" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37707904), and I didn't want to do that.
I appreciate your work and all, but this URL change disoriented me. I upvoted the submission when it was pointing to the root page of the website.
Coming back to the thread half a day later now, I suddenly found that I upvoted the page "Draggable objects" despite never having previously visited or hearing of the page.
I read the new page anyway and liked it. But it contradicts the original my intent of the upvote and essentially gaslights me into a fictitious past.
But if we're to optimize HN for intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), we have to consider thread quality, and there's no doubt that submissions like this generally lead to generic, and therefore shallow, discussion in the way that I described upthread.
Overall I think the best way for HN readers to discover a site like this is bottom-up: to run across an example of a great article and a great thread about it, and then click around to discover what else is there. This is more in the intended spirit of HN.
Edit: it's a little unorthodox for us to change the URL in midstream after a submission has this many upvotes and pre-existing comments, but I hope everyone understands that I did so to give the site more exposure and appreciation, not less. The alternative would have been to downweight the post as a "list submission" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37707904), and I didn't want to do that.