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I'm a native English speaker but I have to admit that the spelling difference is not logical. Scrapping is fine but scraping should really be "scraeping" to make it's pronunciation clearer.
It's entirely consistent with the regular rules of spelling and vowel length. Compare taping vs. tapping.
My simple GitHub project went viral
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Re: My simple GitHub project went viral
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It’s only self hosted when you have more then 250 users :(
There's the open source part of it: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool Not sure if it's missing any notable features of the SAAS product.
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I got 100k visits for my project https://reallyconfused.co/ and 0 donations because my donation link was broken and I noticed it too late...
Honestly, you should charge actual money for this. Not a bad idea at all, plus the templates you already have are pretty neat. I could see applications w.r.t. professional development or even marketing to product people with the purpose of simplifying product roadmaps (and sharing with C-levels, etc.). You have something here, screw donations. Free users suck anyway; my free project[1] has ~1500 MAU and I kind of wan…
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It's entirely consistent with the regular rules of spelling and vowel length. Compare taping vs. tapping.
My point isn't that it does not adhere to the rule, but rather that the rule in this case was comparatively less intuitive.
Re: My simple GitHub project went viral
#115So what? List posts are about the least creative, effortless and worthless content on the Internet. The bar for what is considered achievements is constantly lowered. HN no longer gets interesting submissions, just drivel.
At least list posts are a step above pointless complaints. If you think that HN needs better submissions, you can submit things yourself. Or spent time looking through new submissions and voting up the ones that you like. Then show up and leave thought-provoking comments on articles. All are more productive than complaining about someone creating yet another list that was interesting enough for thousands of people to…