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nsmartt | 11 years ago

There are 61 commits and only one contributor. This isn't a good complaint, and the snark makes it worse.

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fab13n|11 years ago

The snark wasn't necessary indeed, and as an early-stage project, lacking documentation is understandable.

As an HN post however, if you tease us with "magical features" in the title, I'd expect to have the magic shown to me in the linked page, or at the very least in the top comment. I shouldn't have to grok the sources to figure it out.

emidln|11 years ago

Submitter here, I went with name of project + github title rather than editorialize.

drtse4|11 years ago

Thanks, i already noticed the age of the project :). The ""complaint"" is obviously valid, i'd add at least half a page of examples to explain what it does and how to try it, just to increase the chance of contribution.

No snarkiness was intended... but looks like it came out that way.

nsmartt|11 years ago

I didn't take your use of “documentation” to be so loose, but I agree that it should have an explanation for the use of “magical” in the title. The author has since added an explanation.

andrewchambers|11 years ago

Did you even read the readme? He clearly says hes changing a bunch of stuff and doesn't think outside people can contribute much yet.