I think tldr.io is neat, but repetitive self-promotion is really not appropriate here (not to mention that these self-promoting comments don't even disclose that you are one of the people behind tldr!). Most of your recent comments are the same type, and you even had a self-promoting submission killed already. Please stop. Thanks!

I found the tldr link to be useful.

I think that if the content is relevant then there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. I looked at the comment history and he linked to tldr in 7/10 of his last comments over the last week. That doesn't seem excessively repetitive, although a disclosure might be appropriate.

You're right we may be posting to many of these these day. That's not pure self-promotion as re really think they help people get the gist of very long articles (remember the immortal jellyfish story?) but of course we shouldn't spam HN.

This (tldr.io) feels like the future.

it's an achilles heel that tldr's two-sided marketplace relies on one side being busy/hurried enough to sacrifice content for convenience while the other is expected to have available time and generosity of heart to write meaningful summaries.

for me at least, the problem isn't "too much to read", it's having a sense of the quality of an article before deciding to spend the time reading it. hence why i skim HN comments before deciding to click through.