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Well, the Hacker News traffic was more than my poor little webserver could handle. I can't even ssh into the machine to reboot lighttpd. Never thought I would see my personal blog …

> But if you argue against the principle of rapid release, then you can't say in the same breath that users are leaving one rapid release browser (Firefox) for another (Chrome). Hi…

> That's a fair point, but also true is "don't let your product stagnate by keeping it familiar and unchanging". People get bored with similarity and want new shiny things. I disag…

I'm banned? (My posts were showing up for me, so I had no idea.) Did get banned because I broke a rule I wasn't aware of? Or is it that a newly registered account needs to be appro…

> "There's no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now haver to relearn." Yeah, I guess I was overstating the case for rhetorical …

Hi Smacktoward, I'm the author of the post and I agree with everything you said here. How to reach out to new users while keeping your existing users happy is one of the oldest and…

> I do think that they go half the distance sometimes with their privacy measures - "Do Not Track" is unchecked by default, and Firefox accepts and keeps "Third Party Cookies" unti…

Hi, author of the post here. I never anticipated HN-style traffic on my personal blog. My poor lighttpd server couldn't handle it. I just rebooted; should work now.