your-nanny

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HN commenting system sucks and is full of perverse incentives. You get what you measure. but it's pretty much bullshit
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Comment · 6 years ago
I've only found two differences between a bookmark folder and a collection:

1. Collections show up on new tab 2. collection items are remarkably easy to accidentally deleted,with no confirmation or undo functionality.

Reminds me of Firefox reading lists... which also disappeared and I hardly noticed.

Comment · 6 years ago
well I didn't know it was coming and my workflow went to hell.
Comment · 6 years ago
Because it's horrible in almost every way.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm inclined to agree... but to play devil's advocate, it's the sensitive ones we remember and talk about.
Comment · 7 years ago
thank you for writing this history up. I am a regular but never really got involved in the effort to revive (except to announce it's return 10 months ago on HN)--I didn't really know the story.
Comment · 7 years ago
Detect and xplay and yutru are there now. Still devastating the restof us paeons.
Comment · 7 years ago
dependency rot is a more general problem. in my work we deal with lots of seldomly used applications, and I've found that reducing external dependencies tends to keep life happier
Comment · 7 years ago
Here is the proposition: let's make an inherently deflationary currency suitable for black market transactions that will become even more polluting with every transaction.

CryptoKidz: I'm in!

But haters gonna hate, and downvoterz gonna downvote. what evs

Comment · 7 years ago
if true Bitcoin needs to die, and eventually will under its own weight.
Comment · 7 years ago
People hate Word, Excel and Photoshop??? These are examples of wildly successful software used by consumers and in industry alike.
Comment · 7 years ago
Are questions against Hacker News guidelines!?!?!?!?!?
Comment · 7 years ago
why is that interesting?.
Comment · 7 years ago
Only context this makes sense in is research paid for from public purse.

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