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Comment by danabramov | Hacker News Reader

I mean sure but not commenting is always an option. I don't really understand the impulse to argue with a position not expressed in the text.

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it happens because people really want to participate in the conversation, and that participation is more important to them than making a meaningful point.

Maybe add a TLDR section?

I don't think it would do justice to the article. If I could write a good tldr, I wouldn't need to write a long article in the first place. I don't think it's important to optimize the article for a Hacker News discussion.

That said, I did include recaps of the three major sections at their end:

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-json-as-comp...

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-components-a...

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-jsx-over-the...

Look, it's your article Dan, but it would be in your best interest to provide a tldr with the general points. It would help so that people don't misjudge your article (this has already happened). It could maybe make the article more interesting to people that initially discarded reading something so long too. And providing some kind of initial framework might help following along the article too for those that are actually reading it.

The 3 tl;dr he just linked seem fine.

the fact that he needed to link to those in a HN comment proves my point...

it really doesn't. stop trying to dumb him down for your personal tastes. he's much better at this than the rest of us

> he's much better at this than the rest of us

That is not a good reason to make the content unnecessarily difficult for its target audience. Being smart also means being able to communicate with those who aren't as brilliant (or just don't have the time).

The content isn't difficult. People are just lazy

> stop trying to dumb him down for your personal tastes

That's unfair.

If anything you're the one dumbing down what I wrote for your personal taste.

Feed it to a LLM and let it give you the gist :)

Yet because of that the issue they were concerned about was shown to the thread readers without having to read 75 pages of text.

Quite often people read the form thread first before wasting their life on some large corpus of text that might be crap. High quality discussions can point out poor quality (or at least fundamentally incorrect) posts and the reasons behind them enlightening the rest of the readers.

Delegate your thinking to HN comments at your own peril

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