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As it should. Personally speaking, I flagged this thread, and I hope others do as well. There's nothing productive to be accomplished here, nor anything intellectually stimulating to discuss. So yeah, I'm totally for deleting/killing this entire post.

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I think a public review of what to do by Dang (responded to this thread) is not only productive, but highly valuable. It's unreasonable to sit around and wait for a neutral version of this discussion to pop up, it likely never will and the issue is only going to get worse.

I respectfully disagree. IMO, this is all just a lot of pointless meta navel-gazing which is of no value whatsoever. But I'm just one guy, and we all know what they say about opinions. shrug

Well I’m still wondering how they are showing a text only to people who submitted something to HN and nobody seems to know either in the thread so at least there’s that…

Fair enough. :-)

It uses a CSS rule that checks if you have visited the link to submit on hacker news.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503368406970051

wait so you can detect if any of your visitors visited any link before? isn't that a huge privacy risk?

It's probably not being done here , but it's possible to do. The CSS rule is processed in your browser, so it doesn't actually tell the server if you've been to the link, but in theory a website could have some javascript that tries to detect if the CSS rule was activated.

I think this is about as “productive” as the threads regarding the Rust foundation debacle(s). Did you believe those should be flagged too? I don’t think they were.

Personally I believe the communication from Asahi’s leadership regarding the users of HN to be relevant. And as others have pointed out in this thread, especially when HN users have supported development of Asahi.

Did you believe those should be flagged too?

I don't know, the whole issue was not important enough to me for me to spend much time reading those threads.

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