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Comment by pipio21 | Hacker News Reader

Carmack: Some times you read HN. If you are reading this, please consider writing on a blog or something neutral.

It is extremely disgusting for your readers to have to log in or else...half of your screen is occupied with spam.

There is people out there that prefer not to report everything they read, when, where, how, how long to a big multinational associated to the US secret services.

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"Extremely disgusting" sounds like an overreaction. "Not ideal" maybe, or "not helpful to those of us who don't want to read things in Facebook for privacy or security reasons". But "extremely disgusting" is over-exaggerating the importance of the choice of medium for a text post.

I was going to say "criminally atrocious" but then the popup div literally made me vomit excrement.

I know it's not an either or situation -- but in my opinion this is a step up from Twitter. Technical discussions on twitter is super frustrating to follow along. And almost impossible to have intelligent conversations in 140 chars.

The best part is, facebook already has dev blogs:

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/

https://code.facebook.com/posts/

No popups, sane column widths. Yet John is still cramming blog posts into Facebook user posts.

Firefox's built-in reading mode was great in this particular case. That page is pretty unusable otherwise :/

I think selling his company to Facebook has far wider reaching implications for privacy than where he hosts his blog, unfortunately.

His company? It's not his company.

It is a funny way to phrase that. If you own a meaningful stake in a business, do you call it your company? I think most people would have referred to it as Palmer's company. However, Carmack did have an ownership stake in Oculus.

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