Is this HN satire?

I choose to believe it is.

Then again I can name at least one person who would unironically agree with what the GP has written.

I can no longer tell the difference. 2020 has ruined me...

Well, I also feel that this year HN discussions are seeing more bickering and more endless discussions where we have seen each side’s arguments a thousand times. The discussions feel a little bit more predictable than pre COVID. Or maybe I just spend more time in the comments...

I don't think it's just you. It does feel like the comment section quality has dropped since the lockdown began.

I still can’t think of any forum with a higher discussion quality, but people seem less friendly.

Must be!

You’re trying to make a joke, but the website could definitely be looked at again with modern expectations. It’s unusable on my iPhone. Even trying to pinch zoom somehow interacts with it. I couldn’t figure out its purpose before I lost interest and closed the tab.

The sarcastic attempt to say “look how amazing this without any modern tools” is out of place when the website isn’t very usable.

What bs! The author has no obligation to provide mobile web services ಠ_ಠ.

I honestly can't tell whether this comment is a joke or not. If so, it's not a great one.

The reloading I see on this site is actually super annoying since it resets my zoom level every time, so I, for one, fully agree.

As a postmodern front-end developer, it is appalling that you attempted to pawn off a classical framework like React to the programmertariat. View frameworks like React and Vue are a waste of CPU cycles and network bandwidth. Not only are they packaged with the application itself, but they also proxy objects (`reactive`) so they can do their hooking. The new way is to compile one's app into an artifact that uses something along the lines of Apple's Clang Automatic Reference Counting to insert re-rendering statements in appropriate areas of the code.

[1] https://svelte.dev/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting

This is a great copypasta.

Mother of God.

A few more points: - Lacking web assembly - Doesn't make use of the new browser-USB spec - No usage of web sockets

I'd agree that this backwards technology stack about invalidates the project? \s

Plus there’s no monetisation strategy. Where’s the hustle? I don’t get it.

I’m 19 and get paid 600k (graduated from a boot camp last month), I could build this in a weekend too.

Nah