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There's not much discussion there. That submission was raided by comments from new accounts and it got penalized by HN.

I'm speaking from first hand experience.

I returned to Syria recently and so did 2 millions in the past 2 years. The country is doing better relatively speaking. It's not a first world country but most people have food and safety, and there's aid organizations to help those in need.

There's no conflation in priorities. Every bit helps. People are trying to start businesses and rebuild the country but this tech blockade contribute to making life harder unnecessarily.

Many essential tech services like ChatGPT, Gemini, Coursera, Udemy, Stripe and many others are still sadly unavailable to people in Syria even though sanctions have been lifted and the legal barrier no longer exists.

So, they pretty much bought the entire thing without transferring company ownership? It's weird to split the information on multiple posts.

They want to maintain the community they have because it's the real asset for any open-source project, which is the direction they're betting on.

They're not buying the product. They're buying the company so they can pivot and implement their vision.

Basically, the investors lost interest but the team is passionate and see a path to success. They won't be maintaining the old product, they're going in new direction.

So this is a principle you live by to avoid time sinks in any form. Fair.

I'm interested, what makes HN frontpage different? Why spend time on HN but avoid "fun" submissions? To me the extension serves as almost a shortcut to help you find interesting stories you're looking for. I imagine you also closely monitor and limit the time you spend on HN as well?

Do you have recommendation for books or articles that resonate or helped influence you regarding this.

I implemented this and pushed a new release v1.3.0. It should be live on all browser stores within few days.

This is a nice feature will add it next in the coming few days.

It shouldn't need anything other than the permissions requested on install.

- Visit a submission page like this Show HN.

- Check permissions for the extension. Maybe they were skipped on installation somehow.

- Are you using other extensions for HN? they might obstruct this extension from integrating with the site.

It's harsh to compare this to social media personalized feeds when it's fundamentally different.

> if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it

This extension has 'manual' mode which only show the search field by default and then you get to fetch results at your command. Very much like an embedded search engine.

Its functionality is more like the book recommendations you come across on goodreads. It only shows when you visit a discussion you're interested in. The nature of this website by itself is quite different from other social media.

But I understand where you're coming from and appreciate you raising awareness.