Comment by susam
4 hours ago
This is great. Thank you for building and sharing it.
May I request you to consider moving this project to a community organisation like https://github.com/<your-new-org> so that we, the HN folks, can maintain it as a community? Curated list projects often start with a lot of enthusiasm and I follow several similar ones focused on personal websites and blogs. While some of the curators remain active and maintain their project even years later, some do not. This isn't a complaint. I know life happens and circumstances change. So it is understandable that some of these projects become inactive later.
But it becomes a little problematic when someone wants to have their creation added to the curated list but cannot do so because the maintainer is no longer active. Of course, volunteers can fork the project and maintain it as a community but this is easier said than done. Once a 'Show HN' thread like this becomes successful, future visitors are more likely to end up on the original but no-longer-maintained curated list than the newer community maintained fork. For that reason, when I created my list of curated personal websites, I did so under the organisation <https://github.com/hnpwd> from the very start, and now we have multiple maintainers and contributors helping out with the curation.
Hosting the project under a community org with multiple maintainers could give it a better chance of staying active in the long term. This is only a request. I do not mean to impose or pressure you in any way. Please feel free to ignore the suggestion and thank you again for the work regardless.
Most of the "Awesome XXX" lists are designed solely to promote their creators pet project.
You can see the gaming happen early on in many of these lists, where commercial things start appearing quite highly, or weirdly the project get sponsored.
Once they get popular the creators abandon them and start ignoring the updates/PRs because their task of feeding traffic to their personal projects has been accomplished.
The org should also curate selections. Particularly only games that have been well received in past HN discussions, and if they have, the org might add them to the directory.
> multiple maintainers and contributors
This is important but seems orthogonal to whether or not the repo is under an org.