[farinasa]

What hackernews has become:

I remade this simple game!

I was getting really fed up with the flappy bird stuff and was happy to see it go. Now this? Don't get me wrong, love the game, but god damn can we say beating a dead horse?

[Udo]

It's not like 2048 is taking over the front page. People iterate on an idea that's fun for them, where's the harm in that? What have you done today that you'd like to show us?

[farinasa]

I don't mean to insult anyone. I fully understand why people are doing it. But I don't understand how these get repeatedly voted to the top. Can't we start a megathread or something for these?

[Udo]

> Can't we start a megathread or something for these?

That's not how it works. HN is ephemeral, threads last for one day mostly (sometimes 2) - after that it's like they were never there. If there's a new development about any subject, a new thread gets created. Look at all the threads where people speculate about the downed Malaysia jet or Dorian Nakamoto.

If you don't like or don't care about something, just ignore it. I ignore 50% of the stuff here, but rarely do I come across a thread that makes me feel "this shouldn't be here at all".

I also think the unspoken convention is that people who made a piece of software get a bit of extra attention and feedback. Personally, it's one of the features I like most around here.

[Killswitch]

I'm starting to sound like a broken record saying this, which is kind of sad... But here it goes again.

If you don't want to see something on the front page, don't upvote it. If it makes the front page, then people wanted to see it on the front page, or liked it enough to upvote it... The whole mentality that somehow you think that the majority of HN agrees with you on being sick of seeing this stuff on the front page is clearly wrong, because they're putting it on the front page.

If you see something that doesn't interest you, move onto the next.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

[farinasa]

Isn't your post slightly hypocritical? And isn't talking about it better than just ignoring it anyway? You did decide to say something after all.

[Killswitch]

Of course, lets fill up the thread with comments about how 5 of (as of this comment) 92 people didn't want to see this on the front page, instead of talking about the link itself.

[aw3c2]

Because people are having fun with some open programming and brainstorming. It's awesome!

[mayneack]

There's about one thread per day or at least one at a time, a megathread would be exactly that.

[jsmthrowaway]

Watching the stories about these games float right to the top of HN has inspired me to make Flappy 2048 for some easy pageviews, so there's that.

[jiggy2011]

It's good because it has slightly more sophisticated gameplay than flappy bird and is still straight forward to implement and therefor iterate on.

It's quite fun to see a game literally evolve.

[ZoF]

Completely agree.