It just dawns to me that "complaining about the style or minor usability of the website" is a type of bike shedding that happens regularly in hacker news.
Instead of contributing to the discussion related to the post, it's easier to just go "the website sucks."
Hacker News has no shortage of resourceful people that can silently handle the issue by themselves (the first comment even said themselves that they could simply use Reader Mode!). But the main point of my reply is: look at the number of replies that focus on the style of the website, and compare that to the number of replies that focus on the point of the post/article.
This forum is primarily used by computer programmers... and I only saw one other comment chain critiquing the style. And I agree with them that the font size is far larger than you'd normally see for a body of text to the point that it's jarring. I don't have much experience with Go, so I can't comment much on the content, I'm just here to learn when it comes to the content. As far as I can tell they are vastly overcomplicating the concept of assigning variables.
There is no point to the article, though. Enums suck in every language that have them. There is good reason why many modern languages don’t have them at all, offering sum types instead. It doesn’t add anything to the conversation.
And "stopped reading at X" (X usually being on the first line or last line, for added stupidity in either direction, and often over something completely marginal). I wonder if there is a list of template hacker news comments anywhere.
Yes, it's incredibly annoying (and I'm contributing to the problem by participating in this meta discussion). My general policy is any time I see a post that does this (without saying anything else substantive), I downvote and flag. I usually reserve flagging for truly egregious examples of garbage, but I make an exception for this type of post.
And meanwhile instead of reading later comments and participating, I'm commenting on this dumb thread. Sigh.
Edit: wow, at the time of writing, there are only three comments on this post that's actually about the article itself, with the rest complaining about the page design. C'mon HN, do better.
