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Comment by boxed

2 years ago

100% agreed. I've had my response to this sitting in my drafts folder for years now. Finally published it now after reading this thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38302122)

Your web site said “[CLAPPING HANDS SIGN] 3 claps”. Since I didn’t know what that meant, I clicked on it. It changed to say “[CLAPPING HANDS SIGN] 4 claps”. Now I feel like the person in that old joke about someone standing by a well or a cliff, repeating a number out loud.

  •   I stole that thing from how medium does it. I think it's a good middle ground between absolutely no feedback and comments.