HomestarRunner.com was updated today for the first time in nearly four years.

DelightfulScone: you are shadowbanned.

Now that you mention it, there definitely has been a subtle shift between loving my time with the internet, and just using it. I wonder when that happened?

Mine is zombo.com. I still remember how I felt the first time I sat there waiting for this incredible site where I could do anything! The internet was new enough (to me) and amazing enough that I thought it just might be possible that I had stumbled upon a place where the only limit was myself.

Bravo. If everyone here thought like you, HN would be the place we want it to be.

Nah, spam is different and much worse. Fortunately, it's also easy to identify, and thus (double no-jinx!) it's largely a solved problem on HN.

Apology not accepted because not necessary :)

I'm not always going to be spending all day, every day posting things like this. I'm going to do it until you're all good and sick of it, and then go back to being mostly silent—but easily accessible.

What's clear is that the community has been starved for answers at our end. It really was a classical starvation problem (algorithmically I mean): the resource stream couldn't come close to keeping up. One reason—the main reason—we're changing HN is to fix that. And we're going to err on the side of verbosity and metaness for a while until we can all relax.