HN is mainly goodwill for YC (any VC would pay a fortune to have HN and its audience).
So the parent comment seems to suggest that it's damaging to the goodwill of the site to disable signups.
If this was a permanent change, I'd agree, but it may be temporary, and it's not totally disabled (you can still signup by submitting content, as someone else wrote).
So the parent comment seems to suggest that it's damaging to the goodwill of the site to disable signups.
If this was a permanent change, I'd agree, but it may be temporary, and it's not totally disabled (you can still signup by submitting content, as someone else wrote).