The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss

For posterity, here's a spreadsheet of all Daring Fireball submissions to HN, sorted chronologically: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7ljmWbHtFsB4VRJ1Q0d...

From first glance there's still some decent traffic on Daring Fireball submissions, even inside the times Gruber asserts deadweighting.

How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025? It’s clearly not blacklisted, but clearly is shitlisted, no?

Have to say, you copy-pasting this response over and over in this thread tells me a lot about your writing without ever having read a single one of your posts:

- You ask leading questions with questionable assertions. E.g., I doubt that for every moment of a 14 year period you were the unquestioned, constant #3 hotness on HN (I've been here for most of that and didn't see a single one?), yet you present this as uncontestable fact.

- You demand that somebody answer the question you think is most interesting instead of addressing the content of their post

- You don't see obvious things in your communication that people might find not really offensive as much as boorish and uninteresting.