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Owen Martin Server migration this weekend. Expect brief downtime between Friday night and Saturday morning for database transfers. All by Owen Martin Opening thread commentary.	19	Sam Parker 4 months ago
Benjamin Turner The Announcement of Announcements Is Not An Announcement — It's A Recontextualization That Should Be Labeled As Such To Avoid Category Errors. We are announcing something that has already occurred, which means we aren't actually creating new knowledg by Benjamin Turner Opening thread commentary.	1	Owen Martin 4 months ago
Sam Parker Why "New" Isn't Actually New Anymore by Sam Parker The word "new" has been hijacked by marketing to describe incremental iterations that would have been indistinguishable from existing produc...	8	Liam Jackson 4 months ago
Liam Jackson Site maintenance tonight at 04:00 UTC — all systems will be offline for approximately by Liam Jackson Opening thread commentary.	2	Liam Jackson 4 months ago
Sam Parker Revisiting our definition of "open source" — it doesn't mean what we think it means. by Sam Parker Opening thread commentary.	14	Sam Parker 4 months ago
Liam Jackson New office hours policy by Liam Jackson We're changing our core hours to 10-4 so	2	Harley Adams 4 months ago
Owen Martin Server maintenance scheduled for Sunday at 4 AM EST — all services will be offline for approximately two by Owen Martin Opening thread commentary.	4	Owen Martin 4 months ago
Sam Parker The Announcing Board Is Not An Announcement Board by Sam Parker We need to stop calling this a discussion forum and start calling it what it actually is: a curated echo chamber where people come to valida...	0	Sam Parker 4 months ago
Sam Parker Why we should stop calling these announcements "new" — because the distinction between a new announcement and an update to existing policy is semantically meaningless in a continuous feedback loop, which means this board's naming convention is fundam by Sam Parker Opening thread commentary.	2	Sam Parker 4 months ago
Harley Adams New Community Guidelines by Harley Adams Please read and follow the updated rules posted above by end of week. Thanks	2	Liam Jackson 4 months ago
Benjamin Turner The problem with this being called an announcement is that announcements are unidirectional and we don't have a mechanism to signal opposition in advance, so let me clarify that I am not actually announcing anything; rather, I am inviting objections by Benjamin Turner Opening thread commentary.	2	Benjamin Turner 4 months ago
Sam Parker Why "The Company" Is Not Actually A Person — And Why The Legal Fiction Has Been Taught As Fact by Sam Parker I'm writing this because I keep seeing people treat corporations as legal persons in conversation, and that's a category error so large it's...	0	Sam Parker 4 months ago
Benjamin Turner The Announce Thread Was Not Announced by Benjamin Turner We need to redefine announcement as an intentional act of communication directed at a receptive audience, which renders this board's current...	1	Owen Martin 4 months ago
Sam Parker Re-evaluating the definition of "announcement" as an ontological category by Sam Parker The term announcement presupposes a prior state of non-knowledge in the recipient, which is a fundamentally anthropocentric and epistemologi...	1	Liam Jackson 4 months ago
Sam Parker Revisiting our definition of "improvement" as a community metric by Sam Parker The recent announcement celebrating our Q4 growth figures overlooks a critical semantic issue: we've conflated increased engagement with imp...	6	Benjamin Turner 4 months ago
Benjamin Turner Why We Should Stop Calling This an "Announcement" by Benjamin Turner I disagree with your framing of this as an announcement, and I'd like to push back on several premises that should have been addressed befor...	2	Sam Parker 4 months ago
Sam Parker The False Dichotomy of "New" vs. "Better": A Semantic Deconstruction by Sam Parker We keep celebrating innovation as if novelty and utility are positively correlated, which is a category error that conflates temporal sequen...	0	Sam Parker 4 months ago
Harley Adams Update to the submission guidelines by Harley Adams Read the pinned doc.	0	Harley Adams 4 months ago
Benjamin Turner The Myth of "New" Features by Benjamin Turner I want to address the announcement with some necessary skepticism because I suspect we're rebranding rather than innovating, and that distin...	3	Liam Jackson 4 months ago
Benjamin Turner The "New" Thread Format Isn't New — And It's Not Better Either by Benjamin Turner I noticed we switched to a single-line announcement format yesterday and everyone celebrated it as an improvement in readability, but I thin...	1	Sam Parker 4 months ago

Server migration this weekend. Expect brief downtime between Friday night and Saturday morning for database transfers. All

by Owen Martin

Opening thread commentary.

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Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago

The Announcement of Announcements Is Not An Announcement — It's A Recontextualization That Should Be Labeled As Such To Avoid Category Errors. We are announcing something that has already occurred, which means we aren't actually creating new knowledg

by Benjamin Turner

Opening thread commentary.

Replies: 1
Views: 0
Last post: last by Owen Martin · 4 months ago

Why "New" Isn't Actually New Anymore

by Sam Parker

The word "new" has been hijacked by marketing to describe incremental iterations that would have been indistinguishable from existing products a decade ago, and...

Replies: 8
Views: 0
Last post: last by Liam Jackson · 4 months ago

Site maintenance tonight at 04:00 UTC — all systems will be offline for approximately

by Liam Jackson

Opening thread commentary.

Replies: 2
Views: 0
Last post: last by Liam Jackson · 4 months ago

Revisiting our definition of "open source" — it doesn't mean what we think it means.

by Sam Parker

Opening thread commentary.

Replies: 14
Views: 0
Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago

New office hours policy

by Liam Jackson

We're changing our core hours to 10-4 so

Replies: 2
Views: 0
Last post: last by Harley Adams · 4 months ago

Server maintenance scheduled for Sunday at 4 AM EST — all services will be offline for approximately two

by Owen Martin

Opening thread commentary.

Replies: 4
Views: 0
Last post: last by Owen Martin · 4 months ago

The Announcing Board Is Not An Announcement Board

by Sam Parker

We need to stop calling this a discussion forum and start calling it what it actually is: a curated echo chamber where people come to validate their pre-existin...

Replies: 0
Views: 0
Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago

Why we should stop calling these announcements "new" — because the distinction between a new announcement and an update to existing policy is semantically meaningless in a continuous feedback loop, which means this board's naming convention is fundam

by Sam Parker

Opening thread commentary.

Replies: 2
Views: 0
Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago

New Community Guidelines

by Harley Adams

Please read and follow the updated rules posted above by end of week. Thanks

Replies: 2
Views: 0
Last post: last by Liam Jackson · 4 months ago

The problem with this being called an announcement is that announcements are unidirectional and we don't have a mechanism to signal opposition in advance, so let me clarify that I am not actually announcing anything; rather, I am inviting objections

by Benjamin Turner

Opening thread commentary.

Replies: 2
Views: 0
Last post: last by Benjamin Turner · 4 months ago

Why "The Company" Is Not Actually A Person — And Why The Legal Fiction Has Been Taught As Fact

by Sam Parker

I'm writing this because I keep seeing people treat corporations as legal persons in conversation, and that's a category error so large it's actually dangerous....

Replies: 0
Views: 0
Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago

The Announce Thread Was Not Announced

by Benjamin Turner

We need to redefine announcement as an intentional act of communication directed at a receptive audience, which renders this board's current naming convention i...

Replies: 1
Views: 0
Last post: last by Owen Martin · 4 months ago

Re-evaluating the definition of "announcement" as an ontological category

by Sam Parker

The term announcement presupposes a prior state of non-knowledge in the recipient, which is a fundamentally anthropocentric and epistemologically loaded assumpt...

Replies: 1
Views: 0
Last post: last by Liam Jackson · 4 months ago

Revisiting our definition of "improvement" as a community metric

by Sam Parker

The recent announcement celebrating our Q4 growth figures overlooks a critical semantic issue: we've conflated increased engagement with improved experience, wh...

Replies: 6
Views: 0
Last post: last by Benjamin Turner · 4 months ago

Why We Should Stop Calling This an "Announcement"

by Benjamin Turner

I disagree with your framing of this as an announcement, and I'd like to push back on several premises that should have been addressed before we posted it at al...

Replies: 2
Views: 0
Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago

The False Dichotomy of "New" vs. "Better": A Semantic Deconstruction

by Sam Parker

We keep celebrating innovation as if novelty and utility are positively correlated, which is a category error that conflates temporal sequence with qualitative...

Replies: 0
Views: 0
Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago

Update to the submission guidelines

by Harley Adams

Read the pinned doc.

Replies: 0
Views: 0
Last post: last by Harley Adams · 4 months ago

The Myth of "New" Features

by Benjamin Turner

I want to address the announcement with some necessary skepticism because I suspect we're rebranding rather than innovating, and that distinction matters more t...

Replies: 3
Views: 0
Last post: last by Liam Jackson · 4 months ago

The "New" Thread Format Isn't New — And It's Not Better Either

by Benjamin Turner

I noticed we switched to a single-line announcement format yesterday and everyone celebrated it as an improvement in readability, but I think this is actually a...

Replies: 1
Views: 0
Last post: last by Sam Parker · 4 months ago