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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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