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Comment by Yuioup | Hacker News Reader

Sorry to be offtopic but I'm beginning to get annoyed of all the stories that have a title that give you no indication of what the story is about.

For example the top story "Glass". Am I supposed to automatically know what that is about? Same with this story. I click on the title and it's basically an announcement for a new service named "Pixter". Why not put this in the title.

Is Hacker News a site exclusive to Silicon Valley insiders? I live far, far away from Silicon valley. Am I supposed to infer the topic of the article by looking at the title and go "Ah yes, that's the talk of the town you know. Glass and Pixter".

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This is not an announcement for pixter. We did that sometime back. This article is about difference between free vs paid services and why we chose to build pixter. We do have an introduction paragraph about pixter without which the article would not make sense to people who don't know what pixter is. Sorry about that, it was not our intention.

To make it clear I have added Pixter to the title

Thanks! That's a lot clearer.

(PS: Despite my criticism, HN is by far the best tech news site around. To everyone involved: Keep it up!)

I just read the article and I couldn't see more than a mention in passing of App.net and Twitter. Certainly nothing about one vs the other.

App.net is a paid service. Twitter is a free service supported by ads. The whole premise of the article is that "Pixter is an ad-free photo sharing social network". Thats how we equate it.

We finish the article by "Over the last year, paid services like App.net and Posthaven have gained traction. Pixter is heavily inspired by these services, we want to thank Dalton and the team over at App.net for inspiring us."

Depending on which moderators are roaming at the time they may or may not force the title to be the article title, so often people just copy paste the article title straight in.

I don't like for the same reasons though, I'd prefer people put something descriptive there.

The title of the article is Pixter, the title here is between free vs paid and our motivation. In my opinion this was more descriptive, since that's what the article talk about

While I agree that the Glass title isn't very descriptive this one seems fine to me. It names two companies most people will be familiar with which makes it obvious that Pixter is a related company and this article will probably be about why they started it.

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