There is so much you can put in a title. Calling it as "clickbait" is too much. They are simple instructions to get the maps of a continent online.

> There is so much you can put in a title.

"Your OpenStreetMap server in 120GB" is only 35 characters, out of 80 allowed for the title, so there's plenty of room to be more specific. "Your OpenStreetMap server of Roads in Europe in 120GB" is still only 56/80 and is much more accurate.

HN wants us to use the title of the source. This is the title of the source, and it's not even clickbait.

> HN wants us to use the title of the source. This is the title of the source, and it's not even clickbait.

I never said it was clickbait, that was the GP comment. And if you're going to refer to the guidelines:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

One could make a reasonable case that the title of the source is misleading because it is incomplete, so the additional specificity may be warranted.

My point is that it's not misleading at all (and thus not clickbait). It doesn't tell the full story, for that you'll have to click it. Most titles on HN don't tell the full story. Many of them could be suffixed with "in America", or "for Mac" or something like that. Yet we don't do that either.

clickbait would be

1) "You'll never believe what we built in only 120GB of Ram" 2) "This is how much RAM you need to run an OSM server" 3) "10 reasons you need this simple piece of technology in your life"

I agree that this is pretty uninteresting and don't know why it got so many upvotes, but it definitely isn't clickbait.

Nope, this is absolutely clickbait akin to pretending 'Wikipedia in 5 megabytes' if you limit that to just pokemon and no images. It gives a false promise.

Even if it were lying outright (and it didn't claim "complete Open Street Maps" or anything akin), it still wouldn't be clickbait. If we want to kill clickbait, we shouldn't overload the term.

"Wikipedia in 5MB" = lie "How small do you think this popular encyclopedia can become? The number will blow your mind" = clickbait

Now we are fighting semantics. I consider lies in titles to be attempts to bait my interest. If they are in link titles, they try to make me click. Thus = clickbait. Not sure how that definition changed after buzzfeed but that's how I 'learned' it many years ago.

It's interesting because MapQuest discontinued their free OpenStreetMap tile server this week, leaving map app developers scrambling to find something else to use.

But if you're not a map app developer or a user of one of the affected maps, then it's probably not interesting.

>clickbait

That word doesn't mean what you think it means.