Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned

Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by smcin on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:13PM (#34005853)

Yes it's clickbait, so I didn't upvote it; an accurate title would have been "Lessons learned upgrading Lichess from Scala 2 -> 3 and the need to tune the JVM". A drama-free title like that would have been fine, and I would have upvoted.

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by jonathanyc on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:16PM (#34005879)

I agree. Clickbait titles are not universalizable. Kant would not be pleased.

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by kzrdude on Thursday December 15, 2022 @05:31PM (#34006742)

The actual title seems to be Lichess & Scala 3 and the subhead is "Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned."

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by Yiin on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:11PM (#34007701)

Personally I'd never click on your proposed title as I have 0 interest in Scala, but I clicked on this one and was pleasantly surprised by interesting story. Making everything sound robotic is not the way.

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by smcin on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:48PM (#34009849)

Do you agree that title is clickbait? You are ok with titles that misrepresent or exaggerate to boost clicks (even if most of those viewers bounce upon discovering that)?

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by jzoch on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:20AM (#34010722)

But the upgrade....didnt go as planned? In what way was it a misrepresentation? It was certainly generic but definitely not exaggerated. Felt fine for an editorialized title

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by smcin on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:33PM (#34017498)

sdwr's comment had already explained why this is clickbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008009

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by switchbak on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:53AM (#34016873)

They planned to have a much bigger hassle with the upgrade. That "plan" didn't materialize, as the upgrade was a lot smoother than they expected.

Sure the title is jazzed up a lot, but calling it clickbait seems to be a bit harsh.

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by _Algernon_ on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:37AM (#34013450)

You just described the exact reason why this is clickbait. You wouldn't have clicked but due to editorialized title, you did click.

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Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned by quickthrower2 on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:55AM (#34010977)

Or maybe the actual title “ Lichess & Scala 3”

It is not the articles fault the first sentence was used as the title

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