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As if they needed another blow to their already tenuous credibility, the site doesn't even validate.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joindiasp...

I have zero confidence in this group.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://news.ycombinator.co...

EDIT: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.google.com&...

I suppose we should by this logic be 4 times more confident in Diaspora than Google, and 15 times more confident than HN.

Google doesn't validate because they need to serve the page millions of times a day. Hacker News is not a startup, it wasn't funded with $200,000, and its goal is not to create a web application (Diaspora's is.)

> Hacker News is not a startup, it wasn't funded with $200,000, and its goal is not to create a web application (Diaspora's is.)

I'm confused. So does anything that is not a start-up, and/or web application get a free pass on standards compliance? I was under the impression that the standards were meant to apply to all web pages.

I know we're trying to look at them with a critical lens, but this is really pulling at straws here.

This web application does not either: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook....

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