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Comment by zalzane | Hacker News Reader

This is way too long for a pitch. Not only that, it also consists of great swaths of text that are ridiculously easy to skim over that are content-light and have no attention-grabbing openers.

You _need_ some diagrams on here. I could barely make it through the 3rd paragraph before skipping to the bottom to see if there's any kind of tldr or visual aid so that I wouldn't have to read all that crap.

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Yeah. Couldn't agree more. I am interested in this topic. Since learning about the European government testing Github for policy revisions I was thinking about what it'd take to build something very similar to this. So I am sympathetic here. As someone who studied philosophy and still has a more than passing interest I could get behind something like this. But it was painful to wade through a long poorly structured rambling introduction.

For a site that wants to boil ideas down to small chunks we can fork and follow this was a really poor introduction.

And the text was borderline unreadable.

Yeah, I got to about the third para...zzzz and popped over to the HN comments to see if it's worth steeling myself for the rest.

However, it looks like the biggest mistake was made by the submitter. Just go to the site root, and it's a pretty good thumbnail, or at least a teaser, of what the thing does. The "about" that was submitted is intended for someone who saw the root, got interested there, and now wants to know more.

The about could definitely have been better written though.

You can watch this: http://vimeo.com/61919007

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