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Comment by tomhow

2 days ago

Many thanks for the warm welcome, everyone.

It’s been a privilege to help support this community and to work alongside dang, who has been a great friend and mentor for many years. It’s a great responsibility, to keep HN a healthy and thriving community, and I’m continually amazed to see all the ways dang puts thought and energy into it.

One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected to know or learn Arc, yet somehow in the onboarding process the HN Arc repo has found its way onto my machine, so it feels like the bait and switch is on…

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zormino  2 days ago

Thank you for doing what you do! I'm sure it isn't easy keeping this place healthy and thriving, but me and so many others really appreciate the blood, sweat and probably a few literal tears it takes :)

  • jdthedisciple  1 day ago

    Not to forget — of course — the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that must've went into cushioning the brain from the occasional nervekiller comment, as well as the endo-/perilymph for the overall "mental balance".

frainfreeze  2 days ago

One more welcome from another Tom o/

Nice to hear someone else is looking at Arc now as well! Any chance we might see some issues on anarki resolved now? Perhaps https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/issues/89 would be a good starting point :grin:

Jokes aside, its good to see YC cares about community, and looking forward to seeing your nick in the comments. Good luck

  • tombert  2 days ago

    Indeed, from yet another Tom, glad you're doing what you're doing. HN is the best forum on the internet in no small part due to very active moderation efforts.

simonebrunozzi  2 days ago

Welcome, Tom!

Thanks for your moderation work so far, and welcome as an official moderator. Glad you'll be helping Dang keeping this an awesome community.

wholinator2  1 day ago

Hi, I'm just some young guy but i wanted to thank you for contributing to what makes this site great. It feels to me like this is one of the last bastions of the true news aggregator/comment media of old and i really appreciate everyone who dedicates time to maintaining it. Thanks <3

  • tomhow  16 hours ago

    Thanks to you! We hope to keep the site great for people of all ages, but keeping it relevant for younger readers is something we particularly think about. You're most welcome to email us and tell us if you ever think of ways we can do better at this.

babuloseo  2 days ago

Welcome tom, as a fellow moderator its not easy haha, I am sure its easier than Reddit.

skissane  1 day ago

> One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected to know or learn Arc, yet somehow in the onboarding process the HN Arc repo has found its way onto my machine, so it feels like the bait and switch is on…

I would love it if you could get the current HN code base into a state that it could be open sourced

I understand the desire to keep certain aspects “secret sauce” to prevent abuse, but surely that could be addressed with some kind of plugin mechanism and then just don’t open source those plugins

gadders  1 day ago

Please rewrite HN as an SPA using the most bleeding edge alpha JavaScript frameworks you can find.

  • tomhow  16 hours ago

    10MB page-weight SPA with the front page a 3 x 10 grid of image tile links coming soon. After all my background is in consumer travel and "desktop-like" business admin apps. I'm a natural for this.

  • robertlagrant  1 day ago

    The one thing that could improve HN is rendering fonts clientside on to a full screen Canvas element. Then all we need is a client-side framework for interpreting the element's pixels into HTML for screen reader support.

  • diggan  1 day ago

    I dunno if you got the memo, but we're in 3rd of April now, no more jokes allowed, especially not traumatic ones like those.