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hmmh without trying to talk negatively about it, why is this on front page? am I missing something here?

What happened: people who were dissatisfied with gnome 3.x forked gnome 2 (a long time ago), created the Mate Desktop Environment, and that's pretty much it.

somewhat ancient history and the site has nothing of particular interest to offer... (no revolutionary milestone or anything of that sort)

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That just means you weren't one of the ten thousand[0] today. But rest assured, there were thousands of readers who weren't aware of Mate before and are now.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/

not at all my intention to poke fun at anyone though, it's hard to judge if something which is common knowledge for oneself might not be well known in general

> hmmh without trying to talk negatively about it, why is this on front page? am I missing something here?

The submitter probably forgot that HN is for bleeding edge JS frameworks only.

It seems as though posting an old or ongoing project's web site on HN at any time is considered normal. You aren't the only one who's confused by it. It would make a bit more sense if these posts linked to some kind of new release or announcement of interest from the project ("news").

According to the linked page, a new version was released a week ago.

mhmh yeah I saw that, was unsure if that is the reason it gets upvoted... one should link to this though http://www.mate-desktop.org/blog/2016-04-08-mate-1-14-releas... but ok...

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