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karparov | 11 months ago

Who is behind this and how does it work?

Why is this information not present on the front page?

And why does somebody who thinks people would start using and relying on it not immediately understand that that's important information?

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gruez|11 months ago

pretty clear to me.

>Who is behind this

contact (link to a signal group)

>and how does it work?

"Receive messages on Signal via a simple API. Perfect for notifications and alerts."

"curl -d ' Houthi alert' https://signalbot.one/api/..."

If you don't know what "API" or "webhooks" are, then you're probably not the target audience. That's fine. Your aunt probably doesn't know what an "enterprise workload engine"[1] is, but that doesn't mean vmware needs to provide a dumbed down description so everyone can understand.

https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vsphere

karparov|11 months ago

"Receive messages on Signal via a simple API. Perfect for notifications and alerts." is not "how it works" but "how you use it".

This is "hacker news". A hacker is typically interested in how something works (under the hood).

If a hacker asks "how does this mobile phone work?" then they are not looking for "well here you press a button and then here you speak" but something about radio waves and cell towers and mobile operating systems.

> > Who is behind this

When I looked, this information wasn't there. Only the "buy me a coffee" link. Now it is, thanks.