[cttet]

I don't consider the comments helpful as well, but quite contrastively, because of the over optimism.

Lots of the comments contribute the failure to quite a few reasons, and emphasize on the effect of the reasons. But the real thing is this actually can imply that the failure can be narrow down to "a few simple obvious fixes".

To me it make me feel good since "a bad title" can be a very simple excuse to think that "what if I fix that, things would get better" and ignore more problem in depth.. Since I can never go back in time and retry it in the exact same setting.

Things like "It's OK, you have tried your best" is the real negativity to me, since it implies that I have reached the best I can do in potential/capacity, and can be quite discouraging. But it is quite helpful sometimes since I can recogonize my limits and try to improve myself or pivot.

[erikerikson]

A different interpretation of "you tried your best" is valid. It's not a remark that one has reached their capacity but that one made their honest best effort for the moment they made it (even if it often doesn't feel that way). In fact, because of that effort they'll have learned things that will make their next best efforts even more effective and less prone to the risks that reduced the desired outcome of the prior effort. Bests are a constantly evolving target.

[johnnyanmac]

>Things like "It's OK, you have tried your best" is the real negativity to me, since it implies that I have reached the best I can do in potential/capacity

I don't see it that way at all. It simply means you played the best hand you felt you could at the time. My best in college isn't the same as my best now, Some 7 years into industry.

I'll agree it's not necessarily constructive. But fluff encouragement can be reassuring. Non-constructive insults is almost never valid.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

I am willing to agree for one more reason. Success has many fathers and few have issues with sharing their story ( even if it is sanitized ). Few have 'intestinal fortitude' to go over their failings. Even if the game flopped ( I looked, I actually liked the aesthetics -- it struck a chord, so something was there ), we all can learn something from it and the author should be commended for it. It is not easy ( or fun ) to expose oneself to internet scrutiny.