I feel like this is a bit misleading. You say you weren’t aware of Threes at all when you made 2048, which may be technically true, but then you should probably clarify that 2048 was a clone of 1024 which was a clone of Threes. And this all happened within around a month of when Threes released… to the point where many people started accusing Threes of being a clone of 2048.

Let it go, Matt.

It seems like you are piling on just to pile on, not simply "pointing out the origin". There's already 52 matches for "Threes" on this submission. I think we get it. The author of has added credits to Threes. You won!

Ok but I was correcting his post where he said he wasn't aware of Threes when he made 2048, which was obviously misleading. Why is it acceptable for him to say that, but not acceptable for me to correct him?

If this was your only comment, I wouldn't have said anything. But you have 5 separate comment chains going on about Threes. In addition to the other 5 top-level comments, and ~20 replies that talk about Threes. All saying the same stuff.

It's boring.

I didn't post any top level comments, I'm only correcting people who I see posting misinformation. Isn't the point of Hacker News for people to talk about things they have expertise in? This happens to be a situation I know a lot about since I was also a mobile puzzle game developer at the same time this happened.

>Isn't the point of Hacker News for people to talk about things they have expertise in?

No. Although that certainly can help, it's not the main point.

From the guidelines: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Seeing the exact same thing posted about Threes in over half of the comments here is the opposite of gratifying one's intellectual curiosity. It's boring. Especially when the comment is just a slight rephrasing of a comment that's already been posted several times (or worse, solely a link to your own comment elsewhere in the submission).

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Please don't do this. 13 comments on this is too much, and (as is typical) they've gotten progressively more off-topic and flamewarrish. When people start arguing about what they did or didn't say, with swipes like "Oh come on," it's clear that curious conversation was left behind quite a while ago and it's time to stop.

I get why you'd want to get rid of this thread, but surely the problem was caused the much earlier comment from doppp that said "Let it go, Matt". From what I've seen in the past, you would usually remove that kind of personalized negative response, but not in this case?

I hear you, but different people draw the what-caused-it line completely differently—it basically always feels like the other person started it and did worse (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). It's like the old adage "The fight started when he hit me back."

The reason I replied to you is that your account was producing quite a bit more than the other accounts in this repetitive and dyspeptic discussion.

But the comments largely doesn't add anything further interesting to the discussion. Its been mentioned and spoken about ad nauseam.

How about don't support people who profit off of cheap clones and "forget" to mention the original years later.

Cirulli never profited off of 2048, as far as I know. The iOS app that actually made money was a ripoff by someone else of his MIT-licensed code.

Humans are incapable of absolutely original thought - whether our inspirations are conscious, sub-conscious or fabricated.

Wordle was just...

DropBox was just...

the iPhone was just...

Modern movies are just...

Don't allow others to dismiss your work. They are jealous they didn't do it first - which begs the question - if it was _just_.... then why didn't _they_ do it?

I was originally frustrated with your game and jealous of you for awhile, too.