[kdkirsch]

When posting old pages/articles it may help if the OP explained why they are sharing on HN. Is there a particular question it answers? Is there some development that has made the article more or less useful/accurate? A comment would help guide additional comments.

[layer8]

The reason why the submitter found it interesting doesn’t need to be the same as why the upvoters found it interesting.

[Wowfunhappy]

I wholeheartedly agree, but I do appreciate it when submitters leave a top-level comment alongside the submission. There's no need for it to be special in any way, but it can help seed discussion IMO.

[chefandy]

I see most internet forums as discussion groups where posts start out as invitations to conversation. However, I see HN more like a physical bulletin board in a workplace break room where people post whatever, whenever, and others passively view, interact with, or discuss it as they see fit.

[paulddraper]

Typically on HN people talk about whatever they want, no set agenda.

[kosasbest]

> When posting old pages/articles it may help if the OP explained why they are sharing on HN

I submitted this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341492

The site in question is: https://esif.dev/

I'm doing what @dang suggested:

> The audience here is sympathetic to this topic, of course—but lists don't make great HN submissions. It would be better to pick the most interesting / least known thing on the list and submit that instead.

I'm picking some URLs from that list, this is one of them.

[eimrine]

Internet was a heaven in 2007.

[tannhaeuser]

Then HTML5 and Google/Chrome devs taking over the Internet happened.

[calebegg]

I don't disagree with you but I did find the linked article very interesting to read absent any context.

[moritzwarhier]

I actually like this, also in cases where users sometimes post a submission that relates to some previous discussion, but does not require the context of said discussion but are interesting on their own

[moritzwarhier]

I actually like this, also in cases where users sometimes post a submission that relates to some previous discussion, but does not require the context of said discussion to be interesting.