Comment by troupo
1 month ago
10000 thousand people a day hear about any given topic for the first time in their life https://xkcd.com/1053/
1 month ago
10000 thousand people a day hear about any given topic for the first time in their life https://xkcd.com/1053/
Which is an excellent point for conversations, but in the context of the release notes in the website of the project, I understand that this xkcd principle does not apply.
If one goes to the release notes for Lazarus, they either sought those release notes out, and hence already know what it is. Or they were linked to it in a specific context, such as Hacker News, which the expectation of curiously clicking around to understand the project is natural.
Sometimes I click on HN submissions out of idle curiosity, not because I seek those out, or because I know what the link refers to.
It doesn't mean that I will actively try and navigate out of a forum completely separated [1] from the actual product site just to see what it is.
[1] It's the bane of nearly all projects, both commercial and open-source: blogs, release notes, discussions, forums and often even documentation don't have a single link back to the product page