[Whitestrake]

> You were the one who posted the link! If the landing page isn't designed for HN audiences then maybe that's not the link you should have posted on HN?

The logical extreme of this statement is that @mholt shouldn't post a link to any website unless that link is specifically tailored to the average reader of the site he's posting to. That, or Hacker News is special among all websites @mholt could post to.

I don't think that's fair. I also don't see the defensiveness you see - instead, I see @mholt explaining his website's strategy for the benefit of your understanding (as well as that of any future readers). The alternative to which would be not responding to your feedback at all, as he already has sound reasoning not to incorporate your specific suggestion (which we know because he explained it).

It's important to read into the best possible interpretation of a comment and respond to that, assuming good faith, especially on communities like this one. Otherwise we begin to assume everyone is attacking or defending.

[laumars]

I wasn’t just basing my comment off his responses to me, his tone was similar through this thread and on the Github issue tracker as well (I later saw others have commented on it too). But it’s possible that’s just his writing style and we are reading too much into it and if that’s the case then I’m sorry for doing so.

Regarding the link point. I don’t agree. If you purposely post a promotional link saying “use my tool” to a specific forum then you can’t really backtrack and say “you’re not my intended audience for this page” when people raise questions based on incomplete information published to that link. That’s just bad product advertising. Or at the very least, you should add a disclaimer saying “this is normally a manager link (etc)”.

As it happens, I am actually the target audience for that landing page because I am a tech lead responsible for making architecture-based decisions and the number of HTTP end points we have is few because that’s not the main side of our business (so certs often get forgotten about). That’s why I was asking the questions I was asking.