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lapcat ◴[] No.44379396[source]
> In contrast to release notes, which aim to be exhaustive, release announcements include only the most impactful changes.

No, don't do this. Provide release notes, not release "announcements". Exhaustive is good; exhaustive is helpful to the reader. Let them know their "little" bug is fixed. Or maybe if you accidentally introduced a new bug with your change, or affected the user's workflow in some way, the reader can figure that out too.

The entire blog post is about how to corrupt release notes with marketing.

You don't have to sell your software to someone who is already using it. That's just annoying.

As an indie developer, my users say that they appreciate my exhaustive release notes.

I remember back when I worked for someone else, my boss always changed "fixed a crash" to "fixed a rare crash" in the release notes (whether or not that was accurate) LOL. Keep management and marketing away from the release notes if possible.

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1. bravesoul2 ◴[] No.44379668[source]
Why not both? I think there are 2 purposes here. One is advertising for sure, and also light entertaining reading for interested users who want to keep up. The other is what power users will read through for their favourite change.