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A comment on CRDT resources.

Re:CRDT resources by dang on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:30PM (#29004281)
Lists don't make good HN submissions—they're too generic. The only thing to discuss is the lowest common denominator of the items on the list, and that's usually some very general topic about which there's nothing particularly new to say. Also, HN is itself a list. A pointer to a pointer to a pointer is too much indirection!

It's better to post the most interesting item on the list. That increases the chance that there's something specific to talk about.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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Re:CRDT resources by dqpb on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:08PM (#29005617)
As a counterpoint, I upvoted and favorited this post before seeing your comment.
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Re:CRDT resources by dang on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:39PM (#29006654)
Well, lists do make good bookmarks, and people tend to favorite things they want to look at later, so your comment and mine are quite compatible.

My concern is thread quality. Lists of "resources about X" don't have anything really to discuss beyond "X in general", and maybe supplying links that didn't make the list. That's not, in the general case, enough to support a curious conversation—when it comes to forum threads, "generic" implies "shallow" and "repetitive".

In this case the thread wasn't so bad, probably because CRDTs aren't in the most-discussed-topic set [1]. So as a generic submission it's better than, say, a list of Rust resources or something [2]. Still, we have to derive moderation principles for the general case, and this principle (about lists) is surprisingly reliable and solid.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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