HN as a community still expects itself to have a niche audience and isn't ready to deal with how large it actually is yet. Knowing acronyms like that in this context is thought to be table stakes for participation from most people.
What you're asking from them is still a bit much right now.
From lazy software types who pride themselves on terse communication?
We literally hold contests for having the most wacky code in the least characters and you want someone to go from typing "BGP" to "Border Gateway Protocol"?
Nobody goes around ELI5ing every term in existence to speak to the least educated audience. It's painful in communication and annoying. There's a base level of understanding expected from the audience you're writing for. I agree that BGP might be on the fringes of that but still in the target. Would you expect someone to do that for you with HTTP? TCP?
It's cool to be nice but at some point the ask is ridiculous.
HN as a community still expects itself to have a niche audience and isn't ready to deal with how large it actually is yet. Knowing acronyms like that in this context is thought to be table stakes for participation from most people.
What you're asking from them is still a bit much right now.
Nevermind. I was wrong :)
From lazy software types who pride themselves on terse communication?
We literally hold contests for having the most wacky code in the least characters and you want someone to go from typing "BGP" to "Border Gateway Protocol"?
Nobody goes around ELI5ing every term in existence to speak to the least educated audience. It's painful in communication and annoying. There's a base level of understanding expected from the audience you're writing for. I agree that BGP might be on the fringes of that but still in the target. Would you expect someone to do that for you with HTTP? TCP?
It's cool to be nice but at some point the ask is ridiculous.
I don't think Yandex is an acronym...
Yes, the context of my comment was lost when I edited it. For clarity, I wasn't claiming that Yandex was an acroynm.