Thanks for your comment. I post a link to the github repo periodically because the project is moving incredibly fast and actively evolving to become something that's fundamentally valuable to those building distributed systems, cloud services and want to build applications with Go using a framework. People also come and go on HN so don't always get a chance to see it or dont' remember the project. I'm also always actively looking for feedback and so appreciate your comments and will look to publish a blog post next time with valuable content as I've done in times past on the blog https://micro.mu/blog/.

Otherwise as someone who started this project 5 years ago as his first open source endeavour and was really scared about the reaction from a developer community about the quality of my software or whether there would be any interest at all, I'd hope that positive encouragement is something we advocate for rather than negativity. And I hope others are not disuaded by your comment and actively post on HN to get positive feedback on their project!

Otherwise thanks for your comment.

Oh and also now being an old man I wanted to use an account with my real name rather than a pseudonym :)

> the project is moving incredibly fast and actively evolving

Not that I'm hating, but one of the comments above made a valid point that this part of your comment suggests is correct: maybe you should be blogging about progress of the project and gain plenty of eyeballs?

One thing I saw that fascinated me is you guys are using mDNS for discovery, I was debating this discovery approach for a small microservices foundation for D but I couldnt even find a decent library so I havent really attempted much work in that approach. I did something that in a sense feels like a micro service architecture entirely with mDNS but in Python, then months later I worked with microservices in Java and it felt so bloated and overcomplicated compared to mDNS.

Don't apologize for selling yourself. If they're complaining, its working.

Thank you :)

Aka spam

That is very common practice on HN. Submitting a link here is a lottery that one rarely wins.

genuinely curious to know why you created a throwaway account solely to post this?

If you can only confront someone using a throwaway account, you’re probably being unnecessarily mean. Glad they’re trying to get word out there on what they’re working on. Let the voting do the voting. Thank for your OS work OP, upvote from me. Looks like a cool project!

I understand the positive viewpoint, but don’t feel it’s in the spirit of HN to repost your own project every couple months. Back in the day even just posting your own stuff (instead of someone else who found it interesting) was frowned upon.

IMO a culture of curiosity vs blatant promotion is an asset for this board and should be preserved. I counted at least 26 reposts of go-micro. At what frequency should we just consider it a recurring (free) ad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk

When has self promotion here been frowned upon? It’s even officially supported with “Show HN” posts.

I don’t disagree but that is the exact purpose of forum software: voting, spam detection, etc. The fact that 99.999% of HN users had no idea these posts were made (most have no votes) shows it’s working correctly.

On the other hand, to a large extent getting traction on HN is a somewhat random process reliant on a few high momentum votes in the early drop. A lot of the stuff we see on the front page is pushed by voting rings. Anyway given this persons hard work on a project and desire for traction, I’d rather they try/learn to market at the expense of a couple of bytes on a DB and a few scanning eyes on /new.

And it seems like this post might be their best yet :)

You’re not thinking through the consequences. If this becomes the norm, what will the “new” and index page look like when 90% of the content is comprised of reposted project homepages looking for attention?

> You’re not thinking through the consequences.

Although everyone has their blind spots, I certainly thought of your trivial example (pollution of /newest), and thats what I suggested is the "purpose of forum software". That is what "spam" means by the way. Writing a similar-link detection mechanism is trivial and I'm sure will be done, same way reddit has, if it's an issue. Happy to discuss any other consequences you think I'm not thinking through.

In fact the more interesting thing here is how inconsequential this thread is as it certainly wont have any bearing on the link submission culture @ HN. I'd suggest reaching out to the site admins instead of shaming the individual.

there's nothing new about this norm -- you'll find a ton of accounts like that. often they never make it to the front page, but occasionally a useful gem will surface.

/newest is and always has been a shit show of self promotion

Thank you!