You may have noted this from my links, but just in case—when I say the htmx has a lot of submissions I'm not referring to duplicate submissions, I'm referring to dozens of different submissions of different projects using or adjacent to htmx.

Re: the meta question, dang's policy that he repeats a lot is that reposts are fine every year or so [0]. Individuals may obviously disagree, but that's the rule that's actually enforced.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40523838