> "It doesn't go as planned"
bit of an editorialized clickbait title really.
bit of an editorialized clickbait title really.
I think showmanship is okay if it's tasteful. The problem with clickbait is that it's manipulative and tacky and dishonest. After you read the article you feel like you've been had.
Having spent several years in the running-JVMs-in-production trenches I would claim the opposite.
> I'm sure there are old-hands who have deployed JVM apps at scale might be unsurprised and unimpressed, but I was surprised.
I've never done anything nontrivial with the JVM, so I'm totally willing to believe I was surprised because of my JVM ignorance, but I've never had to fiddle with my language VMs.
Regardless, I argue there's room for tasteful showmanship without it being clickbait.
Clickbait is trying to bait you into clicking. This definitely falls under that. Is it the worst case of clickbait I've seen? No. But it is definitely clickbait.
The most beneficial title from the reader's perspective is a title which allows the reader to quickly decide whether they need to know the information and informs the reader with the necessary information as efficiently as possible. Hence the now long dead practice of writing in the form of an inverted pyramid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)).
Do you feel this article did something wrong? Because from what I'm hearing it seems like you're saying it wasn't to your taste, which is entirely valid but a different matter.
I don't like click bait. I voiced that opinion. That's all.
Sure the title is jazzed up a lot, but calling it clickbait seems to be a bit harsh.
It is not the articles fault the first sentence was used as the title
INNOCENT dev did THIS, and what happened next will SHOCK you
Whoever posted it to HN decided to go with the title of the first section of the article.
What's wrong with a title that is a one sentence summary of the article?
So nobody intended clickbait.
Instead, a smug tale of a huge upgrade that went unexpectedly smoothly - with a performance problem swiftly solved. Still a good story, and kudos to the team. Just not the horror show I came for.
I clearly don't have the same definition of clickbait.
What does this have to do with clickbait?
it seems there is no universal definition of clickbait. So I based my comment on this:
1. the article was posted on Thibault's own website that doesn't generate revenue per click. Isn't clickbait associated with the possibility of additional ad revenue?
2. Thibault recently called for help on the issue. This post recaps what he went through. He clearly expressed that the code upgrade process didn't go as planned for him. the post and sub-title feels genuine.
3. Clickbait (to me at least) indicates that there's either intent on generating revenue or self-promotion. I fail to see those conditions here
So that's my logic. So why would this be considered clickbait?
Both "big upgrade" and "didn't go as planned" are technically true, but overpromise. A big upgrade could be new features, improved UI, something that affects the user experience.
"Updated Lichess language version, had to tweak cache settings" is a title that isn't trying to sell itself.
Thibault isn't posting low-effort spam for profit, he's pouring years of his life energy into a beloved project that is a gift to the world.