[tobyjsullivan]

The most generous hypothesis would be that Planetscale is an increasing popular product among the HN crowd - specifically, those who have to maintain large MySQL deployments. It seems like a very good product that is seeing something like viral adoption across those companies.

The next ingredient would be if dropping MySQL tables is a relatively big pain (or known but unmanaged risk) that most of those people have experienced at some point.

Then this feature would be exciting news for that not-so-small cohort and that seems sufficient for HN upvotes?

I don't know if that's what happened today. I've heard about planetscale a few times but never used it. I can attest that dropping tables is always scary.

[skilled]

I know of many great products that a lot of HN users use or have used in the past. Not once have I felt the need to submit their announcement for a new product feature because I feel like it would spark discussion or foster genuine inspiration.

Don’t get me wrong but clicking on this link I was expecting an actual detailed guide/explanation.

There is nothing anyone can say to justify this being on the front page considering both the submission title and the actual content of the said submission.

[ksec]

By your standard every single Apple product announcement should not be on HN's front page.

[daenz]

>There is nothing anyone can say to justify this being on the front page

There's a "hide" button on HN posts if downvoting them isn't enough for you.

[skilled]

There's a "flag" button also.

[throwusawayus]

article title is misleading! it is about planetscale only, not mysql in general. borderline click bait

also posted by a former github person. not sure if poster is author or works at planetscale but a lot of ex github engg are there

[samlambert]

It wouldn’t be a PlanetScale post without our biggest fan throwusawayus. Let me know if you want a hat.