The release notes don't make sense without knowing what the project is. If you want to post the release notes URLs in a separate comment, I can pin it to the top of the thread. That way no one is likely to miss them.

Guess, this time just set main URL to the "Version History"[0] page (as it shows all majour changes in LeoCAD v21.x in one place, including "dark color" mode introduced in `v21.01`).

P.S. I just curious why in threads about GIMP[1] and Inkscape[1] releases URLs not replaced to each software homepage...

[0] https://www.leocad.org/docs/history.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490326

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405214

That "version history" page is just a changelog. It also doesn't make sense unless people know what the project is.

The other projects you mentioned are orders of magnitude better known and have been discussed a ton on HN. In that scenario we take a completely different approach. I wrote about this at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428. Funnily enough it happened to be in a thread about Inkscape.

When a project has never been discussed before on HN, we routinely change URLs to the project home page so that people get a chance to learn about it. In the current case the project had been discussed before, but only a couple times and not since 2017—that binds more closely to the "never-discussed" scenario than the "much-discussed" one, which is why I changed the URL.

If you look at the last paragraph of the post I just linked to, where it says "For obscure projects", you'll notice an explanation of exactly what I did in the current case. But the "no one is unhappy with the mods" part has now officially been falsified!

The main page is much better context for a general discussion. To someone who does not already regularly make models with LeoCAD or intend to do so in the immediate future, and especially to someone who doesn't even know what LeoCAD is, these release notes are not very useful. But here they are:

> Added option to draw conditional lines. Added option to draw logos on studs. Added option to draw high contrast studs. Added option to configure edge colors. Added new find/replace widget. Improved Bricklink xml export. Added option to paste parts and keep their original steps. Added model measurements to the Properties Dialog. Load official parts before unofficial parts. Fixed mac retina display issues.

> To someone who does not already know what LeoCAD is

There is already TL;DR: comment[0] with link to website.

> these release notes are not very useful

It useful for those who already khow what LeoCAD is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26458863#26459148

FWIW as a casual observer, “this software exists and can do these things” is way more useful than “software I know nothing about got a new feature that I don’t understand because I don’t have the context of knowing what the software is or what it does” :)

> I don’t have the context of knowing what the software is or what it does

If someone don't know something Google always may explain it.

If you go to GitHub release page and don't know what it is, just jump to project main page on GitHub.[0]

[0] https://github.com/leozide/leocad

Responding to the original comment before it got edited:

> Google still works for all, as I know.

So I should google everything that hits the front page of HN, even if I already read the original link and it looks boring, just in case it might be actually be relevant to my interests but the submitter chose a particularly non-representative example to share…?

I think the current approach of “link to the discussion-worthy part” is fine :3

> So I should google everything that hits the front page of HN

Of course NO!

HN users should google only about those thing that hits the front page of HN they don't know.

Maybe https://www.leocad.org/docs/history.html would be good, contains all the release notes going back to 1998 on one page.

Its good for general use, but its not an exact release announcement.