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Comment by andybak | Hacker News Reader

What a terrible post and/or landing page (HN's rules probably hamstrung OP to some degree).

Absolutely lacking in any context. I'm still unclear about the "why should I care?" part.

I had the same reaction. I came to the comments here hoping someone had already explained "why i should care" or "why i should use this". Alas...

I found it to be a refreshing contrast to all these websites that try to sell me some software or product. And the sort of things mentioned in the changelog gives a good impression about the state of the codebase.

There are like 100 new things on HN every day. No one is really going to look at your page if you give 0 explanation on what it is or why someone should care. Even a 1 paragraph about summary would have been useful.

Even the title here was completely void of any meaning on what this was.

Its a web browser.

We have those. Why is this one interesting or different?

Heck. What rendering engine is it using?

I found it interesting because it has stability written on their Github page and the Change log reads like a matured project. I might try it as replacement for Firefox. I don't know what you would find interesting.

Why would I replace it with Firefox? What makes it different than Firefox? If I'm already using Firefox, and have it set up the way I'd like, why should I change it?

That's the point I think a lot of commenters here are making. Same here, I saw the landing page and immediately dismissed it. There needs to be information about what you are offering.

I didn't make it to the changelog because I had nothing that gave me a sense of whether this was worth digging into.

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