Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by themodelplumber on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:32PM
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Public changelogs can create their own form of community feedback pressure which easily stretches the sustainability of development resources. Not that I would complain about it if it existed, but I can see how it would be counterproductive when the development goal as expressed seems to prioritize stabilization.
Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by krapp on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:51PM
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>Public changelogs can create their own form of community feedback pressure which easily stretches the sustainability of development resources
They can, but don't have to. There's no business need being served here like there would be with a startup getting feedback from customers, and HN isn't open sourced, so there's no direct way to do pull requests or report issues.
They could literally just publish changes and ignore people's opinions on the matter, that would be perfectly valid given their small staff and available commitment.
Also, if they wanted to keep feature requests and complaints off of HN proper, having a changelog or request thread might be an effective way to quarantine that content.
I wasn't trying to diminish the work being done, but I couldn't find a more recent official update announcement than the one I linked from 2016.