# hacker news readers? **URL:** \ **Category:** uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 22, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353 "2011-12-22T03:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/bee/32/41_2.png) [@bee](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/bee)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353/1 "2011-12-22T03:49:34Z")
Howdy, Are any of you Hacker News readers? We just posted a ‘review my startup’, and we’re worried it won’t get noticed: [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257) ## B What are you beeminding? [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) ---
**Author:** ![Rob\_Felty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/rob_felty/32/678_2.png) [@Rob\_Felty](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Rob_Felty)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353/2 "2011-12-22T05:27:10Z")
Can you edit the original post to include a link? That would help a lot. On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Bethany M. Soule wrote: > Howdy, > > Are any of you Hacker News readers? We just posted a ‘review my > startup’, and we’re worried it won’t get noticed: > > [Review my startup: A tool to force yourself to waste less time on HN | Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257) > > ## B > > What are you beeminding? > [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353/3 "2011-12-22T05:39:07Z")
No, they actually don’t let you include a link at all in the top blurb. Bethany added one in her comment. Upvoting Bethany’s comment to the top would help… Thanks Rob! On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:27, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > Can you edit the original post to include a link? That would help a lot. > On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Bethany M. Soule wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > Are any of you Hacker News readers? We just posted a ‘review my > > startup’, and we’re worried it won’t get noticed: > > > > [Review my startup: A tool to force yourself to waste less time on HN | Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257) > > > > ## B > > > > What are you beeminding? > > [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) – [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” Follow the Yellow Brick Road – [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) ---
**Author:** ![Rob\_Felty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/rob_felty/32/678_2.png) [@Rob\_Felty](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Rob_Felty)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353/4 "2011-12-22T05:59:05Z")
I have always found the hacker news interface a bit hard to follow. Clicking on the title of the thing links to itself. That is a classic web design no-no. Rob On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Daniel Reeves wrote: > No, they actually don’t let you include a link at all in the top > blurb. Bethany added one in her comment. > Upvoting Bethany’s comment to the top would help… > > Thanks Rob! > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:27, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Can you edit the original post to include a link? That would help a lot. > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Bethany M. Soule wrote: > > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > Are any of you Hacker News readers? We just posted a ‘review my > > > startup’, and we’re worried it won’t get noticed: > > > > > > [Review my startup: A tool to force yourself to waste less time on HN | Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257) > > > > > > ## B > > > > > > What are you beeminding? > > > [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) > > – > [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” > Follow the Yellow Brick Road – [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) ---
**Author:** ![Judy\_Soule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@Judy\_Soule](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Judy_Soule)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353/5 "2011-12-22T21:20:21Z")
I tried to up vote it but couldn’t figure out how…created an account too, but didn’t find any voting options. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > I have always found the hacker news interface a bit hard to follow. > Clicking on the title of the thing links to itself. That is a classic web > design no-no. > > Rob > On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Daniel Reeves wrote: > > > No, they actually don’t let you include a link at all in the top > > blurb. Bethany added one in her comment. > > Upvoting Bethany’s comment to the top would help… > > > > Thanks Rob! > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:27, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > Can you edit the original post to include a link? That would help a lot. > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Bethany M. Soule wrote: > > > > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > > > Are any of you Hacker News readers? We just posted a ‘review my > > > > startup’, and we’re worried it won’t get noticed: > > > > > > > > [Review my startup: A tool to force yourself to waste less time on HN | Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257) > > > > > > > > ## B > > > > > > > > What are you beeminding? > > > > [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) > > > > – > > [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” > > Follow the Yellow Brick Road – [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353/6 "2011-12-23T01:10:37Z")
Oh, I bet it doesn’t allow newly registered users to upvote. Thus preventing people from spamming their friends asking them to all go upvote their submission… (Thanks for trying to though!) We did get a small boost in users today – [users – meta – beeminder](http://beeminder.com/meta/users) – probably mostly from a tweet by Jake Hofman. (Thanks Jake!) PS to Rob: Yeah, that’s super lame when a page links to itself in the title. [quickly deploys version of beeminder with self-link removed. hmm, could add that to [twttr.com/beemuvi](http://twttr.com/beemuvi) but then would have to admit that we’ve been web design doofuses all the way till now! :)] On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 15:20, Judy Soule [jud.soule@gmail.com](mailto:jud.soule@gmail.com) wrote: > I tried to up vote it but couldn’t figure out how…created an account too, > but didn’t find any voting options. > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I have always found the hacker news interface a bit hard to follow. > > Clicking on the title of the thing links to itself. That is a classic web > > design no-no. > > > > Rob > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Daniel Reeves wrote: > > > > > No, they actually don’t let you include a link at all in the top > > > blurb. Bethany added one in her comment. > > > Upvoting Bethany’s comment to the top would help… > > > > > > Thanks Rob! > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:27, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > > > Can you edit the original post to include a link? That would help a > > > > lot. > > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Bethany M. Soule wrote: > > > > > > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > > > > > Are any of you Hacker News readers? We just posted a ‘review my > > > > > startup’, and we’re worried it won’t get noticed: > > > > > > > > > > [Review my startup: A tool to force yourself to waste less time on HN | Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257) > > > > > > > > > > ## B > > > > > > > > > > What are you beeminding? > > > > > [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) > > > > > > – > > > [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” > > > Follow the Yellow Brick Road – [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) – [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” Follow the Yellow Brick Road – [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) ---
**Author:** ![Rob\_Felty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/rob_felty/32/678_2.png) [@Rob\_Felty](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Rob_Felty)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/hacker-news-readers/1353/7 "2011-12-23T03:16:26Z")
I think that Laurie might have missed the small upwards pointing triangle which is used to upvote. I was able to register and upvote al at once. I also just removed the self-link on the fedibblety blog! Rob On Dec 22, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Daniel Reeves wrote: > Oh, I bet it doesn’t allow newly registered users to upvote. Thus > preventing people from spamming their friends asking them to all go > upvote their submission… > > (Thanks for trying to though!) > > We did get a small boost in users today – [users – meta – beeminder](http://beeminder.com/meta/users) – > probably mostly from a tweet by Jake Hofman. (Thanks Jake!) > > PS to Rob: Yeah, that’s super lame when a page links to itself in the > title. [quickly deploys version of beeminder with self-link removed. > hmm, could add that to [twttr.com/beemuvi](http://twttr.com/beemuvi) but then would have to admit > that we’ve been web design doofuses all the way till now! :)] > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 15:20, Judy Soule [jud.soule@gmail.com](mailto:jud.soule@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I tried to up vote it but couldn’t figure out how…created an account too, > > but didn’t find any voting options. > > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > I have always found the hacker news interface a bit hard to follow. > > > Clicking on the title of the thing links to itself. That is a classic web > > > design no-no. > > > > > > Rob > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Daniel Reeves wrote: > > > > > > > No, they actually don’t let you include a link at all in the top > > > > blurb. Bethany added one in her comment. > > > > Upvoting Bethany’s comment to the top would help… > > > > > > > > Thanks Rob! > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:27, Robert Felty [robfelty@gmail.com](mailto:robfelty@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can you edit the original post to include a link? That would help a > > > > > lot. > > > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Bethany M. Soule wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > > > > > > > Are any of you Hacker News readers? We just posted a ‘review my > > > > > > startup’, and we’re worried it won’t get noticed: > > > > > > > > > > > > [Review my startup: A tool to force yourself to waste less time on HN | Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380257) > > > > > > > > > > > > ## B > > > > > > > > > > > > What are you beeminding? > > > > > > [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) > > > > > > > > – > > > > [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” > > > > Follow the Yellow Brick Road – [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com) > > – > [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” > Follow the Yellow Brick Road – [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com)