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Comment by nromiun | Hacker News Reader

Why is this counter-productive and self promotion? Does that mean we should all stop writing programming related blog posts? And move all the discussions into GitHub issues only?

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You can keep writing blogs, but if you want to collaborate you should use the actual mechanisms set up by the project to do so. It's fine if you want to blog about this stuff, and it's often a means for developers to get their name out there and promote their opinions and ideas. There is nothing wrong with doing this, but if you actually have an issue with a project it's much faster, simpler, and, dare I say it, polite, to use the actual channels created for exactly this purpose.

When the inside channels set up by the project gaslight people into thinking there is no problem at all I think it is more appropriate to use blogs, where you have complete freedom to say what you want.

Also, blogs have been used since forever to give constructive feedback to other projects, even other programming languages. So I don't understand why it is suddenly not okey for the Zig project.

Blogs aren't constructive feedback because they aren't easily discoverable. If you see someone has something stuck in their teeth do you yell it to the world and hope they fix the problem, or do you first politely and discretely inform the person. Resorting to blogs as the first course of feedback isn't about helping a project, or collaborating, it's about advertising to the world.

Sorry to have to say this, but you don't have the authority to define what is and what is not constructive feedback. Polite, well written blogs like this are accepted by all people as constructive feedback.

You literally just told me I don't have the authority to define something, then you went on to define it as being accepted by "all people". Isn't that a bit of a double standard?

Blogs aren’t yelling to the world. They’re just a place you put your thoughts for other people to read or not read. Think of it like open source internal monologue.

If youre too young to have context for blogging then it’s not your fault. The intent of “blogs” is generally indeed advertising now a days.

Yes, I understand, I'm saying that they don't, except in second order effect, count as collaboration. That's it. That's the whole point.

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