Ask HN: Problems while submitting post, is this normal?

by VariableStar on 5/29/2022, 12:45:19 PM with 6 comments
I tried several times to submit a short post sharing the recent release of the latest version of a package. However, the submission does not seem to complete. This seems weird because I have done it before. Is this due to some recent change or setting?

  • by gus_massa on 5/29/2022, 1:32:08 PM

    I looked at ypour previous posts. Unnecessary unrequested advice about your post of the Stellarium app: Screenshots. Screenshots. Where are the screenshots? Add some screenshots!

    Also, sometime it's easier to get traction with a blog post about an interesting problem you solved to add a feature. For example:

    > Changed Satellites plugin: improve guessing GALILEO satellites

    It looks like a strange fuzzy problem that has many corner cases and you must get a good heuristic to solve it. So I think it's a promising topic for an interesting blog post.

  • by LinuxBender on 5/29/2022, 1:11:18 PM

    If this is a reference to the Perl submissions I would guess it has to do with the link submitted being the APEX domain rather than a link to the article itself. I am just guessing though. It would be best to email the moderators to know for certain. hn at ycombinator.com

  • by brudgers on 5/29/2022, 6:11:18 PM

    Contact the moderators using the |contact| link at the bottom of this page.

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