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by phoe-krk 2029 days ago
The title should be changed to "PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available"; the article is about PinePhone, not KDE.
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Seconded. Pet peeve: whenever I see those comments after having the title changed, I'm curious: "what was the original title?". In this case, it was: "KDE Community Edition is now available". I just feel like it's a good idea to include this context when making a comment about the bad title so that the future readers can compare.
You might appreciate https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (doesn’t help far future readers except when archived on Wayback or similar though).
Apologies, I've edited it now. I did consider this initially, but the guidelines ask that the original title is used, and I wasn't sure if this fell under misleading.
Thanks.

I'd say it's "confusing" rather than "misleading"; this is because of lack of context. Reading "KDE Community Edition released" when you're on a Pinephone website is more meaningful than reading "KDE Community Edition released" on Hacker News, with only the pine64.org domain being available next to the link.

Agreed, "KDE Community Edition" sounds like the libre variant of a hypothetical open-core KDE.