[portalplatform]

It isn't. We've been working for 6 months since the last submission, it's a completely different version of the web site and service, and we're open to anyone for the first time. We're not launching to the general public yet, we're still just looking for more feedback and help from others on HN.

How is this not 100% in the spirit of Show HN?

[dang]

We're stricter about duplicates on Show HN than reposts in general. Once a project has had significant attention as a Show HN, incremental upgrades aren't enough to make a new one. It needs to be a different project, or at least have some major difference. Otherwise people use Show HNs for new feature releases or just extra attention, which is not in the spirit of the thing.

Releasing the work to more people (which I assume is what "developer release" means) doesn't count as a new Show HN. It might be a huge milestone internally but doesn't imply a big state change in what people can play with and give feedback on.

However, if this is true:

> it's a completely different version of the web site and service

then it probably qualifies, so we'll take your word on that and put the post back.

[portalplatform]

You can see our old site and product on archive.org if you have any doubts, everything is different, but it does seem true that our idea of Show HN is not quite what the policy is. We'll make only regular submissions from now on. Thanks for undoing the demotion.