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by dang 2161 days ago
2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001964

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098262

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695319

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021430

It's a fine thing to submit but the cutoff for dupes is about a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Edit: scratch that, we'll make an exception since it's the first new release in several years. See discussion in subthread below.

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v2.0 of this was released just a few days ago, after several years without a major version. Hence the submission.

Btw, thanks for doing the hard and important work of moderating hn! [Edit: I realize now that the last part may come off as sarcastic, so I want to emphasize it is sincere. While here I disagree with the action, I'm generally very thankful for the moderators' work.]

Ah, ok, I missed that. And now I understand why you submitted https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/#history originally. But are the differences with v2 enough to support a substantively different discussion? I would say probably not? This comes up whenever new versions of projects are released - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428 for a longer explanation.

I'd be happy to make an exception if there's a case for the diff with v2.

The original submission-title was more descriptive (something like: "The Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0 Released: 133 fonts added, new online index"), but I assume a moderator edited it to the current, more concise, one.

Feature-wise, the new version offers about 3 times as many "oldschool" fonts as the previous version, and also introduces the use of several techniques not typically used elsewhere to make the fonts more palettable for modern use (aspect correction, embedded bitmaps to bypass anti-aliasing). Also the online font index has more details regarding each font.

I would say that a very detailed online font index and fonts that are now much more palettable for modern use, may well be grounds for new discussions.

Alright, we'll remove the dupe penalty.