[tannhaeuser]

I agree. I've got nothing against nix, but it frankly sucks that the top comment isn't about asdf which I had hoped to learn about. There should be special "-1 offtopic" comment flagging because it's a frequent phenomenon.

[ris]

> the top comment isn't about asdf which I had hoped to learn about

Oh I think you're using HN wrong. To learn about the subject you can read the actual article that's linked to. No guarantees about the comments section.

[SkyMarshal]

As a fan of Nix and NixOS, I agree with this assessment. Too often people hijack threads about a topic to discuss something related but totally different and off-topic. It's kind of annoying, even when I'm a fan of the off-topic thing.

I've never heard of asdf and popped in here to read about it, people's experiences with it, etc. If I want to read about Nix/OS I'll find a thread on that, or go to /r/nixos, etc.

[ravi-delia]

I mean, just minimize the comment? I like seeing discussion on many related aspects of an article, it's cool seeing how things compare.

[leaflets2]

> Too often people hijack threads about a topic to discuss something related but totally different and off-topic

And what are you doing :-)

[SkyMarshal]

Hijacking the hijacking of the thread ;p

[whimsicalism]

I feel like what you are critiquing is explicitly something HN encourages.