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I don't know guys. Yes, the direct link saves a click, but the original title was more informative for the casual reader. I'm not a professional karma farmer and in dang's shoes I would have made the same adjustment, but I can't deny that seeing the upvote rate going down by 75% after the change was a little harsh.



It was on the frontpage for 23 hours (and still is!) so the submission still did unusually well.

I thought about adding the blog post link to the top text (a bit like in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936992), but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974971 was the top comment for most of the day, and that seemed sufficient.

Edit: might as well belatedly do that!


Thanks for all your hard work as always, dang.




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