Comment by dang

Probably it's because there's nothing specific here to discuss. In the absence of specific new information, discussions turn generic [1] and that tends to make for shallow/indignant discussion. That's one reason why an announcement of announcement (like "Starting next week, we'll open-source 5 repos") is off topic on HN [2].

The releases themselves may turn out to be interesting, of course, and then there may be something substantive to have a thread about. The best submission would be to pick the most interesting release once it shows up.

The "launch week" pattern isn't great for HN, because we end up with a bunch of follow-ups that we have to downweight [3], and there's no guarantee that the largest thread(s) will be about the most interesting element(s) in the sequence. But startups do it anyway so we'll adapt.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...