Agreed, I feel like often on HN someone will post a link to a new release of a tool, and the page will start off with “Version 2.3.2 of FabricMelt brings advanced DNS configurations, support for multi-factor SSOs and better support for high availability deployments.” At this point, I have no idea what FabricMelt is. Maybe that’s because it’s something I don’t need, but if there’s a prominent link to an “About” page that starts with the sentence “FabricMelt is an open source framework for easily building eCommerce sites and deploying them to Kubernetes”, I now have some reference points. I’ll log that away as “Apparently some people on HN find this useful, maybe I’ll take a closer look the next time someone wants me to build an eCommerce site.” Too often release pages for tools have no such “About’” page link, or if they do it somehow spends a paragraph not saying what the tool is.

TL;DR - When you publish a new release of something, make sure to either include a link to an About page or prominently include the sentence “[TOOL_NAME] is [words I either already know or can easily look up].”