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Can you please nominate a specific URL on your site that we can change the top link to? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37707904 for why)

What's your most interesting piece that hasn't gotten sufficient attention yet? I believe HN has had many great threads about the A* and hexagonal grid articles over the years. Is there a comparable one that's been overlooked so far?

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This year I've mostly been updating existing pages in small ways (examples: [1] [2]). This week I've been fixing broken links, which isn't a good HN submission.

I think the best candidate is https://www.redblobgames.com/making-of/draggable/ . It's from earlier this year and hasn't been posted to HN yet (I think).

[1] https://simblob.blogspot.com/2023/04/explaining-hexagon-layo...

[2] https://simblob.blogspot.com/2023/04/improving-mapgen4s-boun...

I've changed to that page from https://www.redblobgames.com/. Thanks!

Obviously, many comments on the thread predate this change, but there's enough context here for readers to figure that out, and hopefully we can get a more specific discussion going.

FWIW, dang, while I know guidelines are to post specific things for me personally “check out this collection of interactive tutorials” is actually a lot more interesting/helpful than linking to a single tutorial, especially when it’s not clear from that tutorial it’s part of a collection larger collection.

Generally I feel like links to collections of stuff do well when they are interesting and don’t when they aren’t and that you modding to a specific example isn’t actually improving quality.

I hear you and am certainly not denying the usefulness of the site! it's fabulous and has been fabulous for many years. It has also made many great appearances on HN over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

But if we're to optimize HN for intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), we have to consider thread quality, and there's no doubt that submissions like this generally lead to generic, and therefore shallow, discussion in the way that I described upthread.

Overall I think the best way for HN readers to discover a site like this is bottom-up: to run across an example of a great article and a great thread about it, and then click around to discover what else is there. This is more in the intended spirit of HN.

Edit: it's a little unorthodox for us to change the URL in midstream after a submission has this many upvotes and pre-existing comments, but I hope everyone understands that I did so to give the site more exposure and appreciation, not less. The alternative would have been to downweight the post as a "list submission" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37707904), and I didn't want to do that.

I appreciate your work and all, but this URL change disoriented me. I upvoted the submission when it was pointing to the root page of the website.

Coming back to the thread half a day later now, I suddenly found that I upvoted the page "Draggable objects" despite never having previously visited or hearing of the page.

I read the new page anyway and liked it. But it contradicts the original my intent of the upvote and essentially gaslights me into a fictitious past.

I'm building out menu systems and information panes for a hobby game right now, and was just starting to wonder about how to make them draggable, so this is exactly the topic I needed. Thank you!

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