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Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by dang »

austincheney wrote: post #71
dang wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of us share that view, but it's against the Show HN rules to post indignant rants about someone's work, so please don't do it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Taken from your link: > When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. The comment you replied to is accurate and not gratuitously negative.

Reasonable people interpret these things differently, but I'd say there were two gratuitous negativities: its snark, and venting an internet trope like "bloat on the web". I don't like bloat on the web either, but we've all heard countless rants about this already, and it's mean-spirited to haul out the artillery in this context.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by dang »

vedantroy wrote: post #77
hit8run wrote: post #61

Looking at the bloated and checked in node_modules folder makes me wanna cry. Yah it's probably all just dev dependencies but building a static website shouldn’t feel like rocket science. People were creating wedding websites in the 90s with just one html file and that’s it. Welcome to the age of total bloat.

You sound like a "get off my lawn type of person"... let's take a look at the dependencies: "animate.css" - as the name would imply, this is for css animations. "font-awesome" - provides icons for vector graphics "waypoints" - a easy way to trigger a function when you scroll to an element This doesn't seem like "bloat". It's not like they used a full fledged framework like React. And, I think it would be pretty hard…

> You sound like a "get off my lawn type of person"

I appreciate your standing up for the OP, but please don't be mean even if someone else was mean. That only makes this place worse.

Your comment would be much better without that swipe.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by joshgel »

duck wrote: post #95
yoongfook wrote: post #44

I’ve got a different format - timeline style: https://www.09092018.com Let me know if anyone wants me to open source this :)

Nice job with the design/layout... that is a great way to present it. Also, nice move with the red envelope request, cash is _way_ better than useless wedding gifts.

I totally agree with this, but my wife and her mother insisted on registering for gifts, because "some people prefer to give gifts". We hardly use the stuff we got and half of it is still in the box at her mother's house, because we don't have room for it.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by iherbig »

dragonwriter wrote: post #50
iherbig wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The word fiancé/fiancée is gendered. It is one of the few gendered words in English, as the gender was not dropped in taking it from French. Fiancé refers to the male. Fiancée refers to the female. They are pronounced exactly the same, which is why you have never heard it.

> It is one of the few gendered words in English Words with semantic, but not grammatical, gender are not uncommon in English which lacks grammatical gender. Fiancé and fiancée are separate English words with different semantic gender, based on different grammatical gender forms from French (which, unlike English, does have grammatical gender.) > Fiancé refers to the male. Fiancée refers to the female. Actually, foll…

>Actually, following French where male grammatical gender is used when the actual gender of the referent is unknown, fiancé is also the generic term.

I did not know this, thanks.

>Words with semantic, but not grammatical, gender are not uncommon in English which lacks grammatical gender.

Are you referring to words like actor vs. actress?

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by tomhoward »

austincheney wrote: post #81
xeromal wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OP said they wanted to cry and crying is reserved for pretty sad things. Seems over-the-top negative to me

This is bad and nobody is required to pretend otherwise. Sensitivity to a critical opinion doesn't make the opinion a form of attack or hostility.

Are you really sure you want to carry on swinging over the importance of HN accepting harsh criticism of someone's wedding site? I mean, it's a _wedding_ site. Maybe just let it go?

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by pokstad »

I just went to my old wedding domain name to see if it was still up (www.paulandtessa.com) and it turns out another couple bought it for their wedding next February. Amazingly, they are from the same city as us (Long Beach). I'm not sure what the chances of that happening considering anyone in the world could have bought it. It's a good thing I didn't renew the domain name so that someone else could enjoy it for their guests. Keep that it mind when you are gobbling up domain names for important life events ;)

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by kkarakk »

tathougies wrote: post #83
sizzle wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At $25-50+ a head for food and alcohol at reception alone, that is a huge number unless you come from wealth... However I think I read somewhere the average cost of South Asian wedding is $100-150k in California. Ouch.

Buffet

buffet's prices are calculated per plate too

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by austincheney »

tomhoward wrote: post #105
austincheney wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is bad and nobody is required to pretend otherwise. Sensitivity to a critical opinion doesn't make the opinion a form of attack or hostility.

Are you really sure you want to carry on swinging over the importance of HN accepting harsh criticism of someone's wedding site? I mean, it's a _wedding_ site. Maybe just let it go?

It is a policy violation or it isn't. You can't have it both ways because of sympathy confusion. At any rate, it doesn't matter. A moderator has already interjected.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by kkarakk »

Y7ZCQtNo39 wrote: post #42
osrec wrote: post #7

Happy Anniversary! For those looking to use this, the following may help a little: find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Ram/YourName/g' find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Antara/OtherHalfsName/g' Edit: FianceeName -> OtherHalfsName (some people are easily offended) :P

I always found the concept of a whole website, domain name, etc dedicated to a wedding to feel a little... heavy. I understand it's a big occasion. It just feels like a lot for a single event and domain that will become irrelevant after the event is over.

> It just feels like a lot for a single event

most people still only get married once

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by mi100hael »

cdolan wrote: post #89
PascLeRasc wrote: post #85

Cool project! Was this collaboratory between the two of you? I especially love this photo [1], I wish that style of formal wear was more common in America. [1] https://wedding.rampatra.com/img/eng_pics/NGP_4089-lg.jpg

For my wedding I tried to not have any technology on me for photos. I always feared having a great photo like that one - but then it can look "dated" with an iPhone 6 in it. Without that iPhone, that photo could be from anytime 1950-2020!

I don't think it's a secret they got married in 2017, though.
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