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Ask HN: Is HN a right place for links to handmade web?
4 points by reconnecting on Jan 9, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
I posted a link to our website, which was created in 2024 without JS, CSS, or inline styles. Personally, I find this interesting because the website looks fairly normal, and this was achieved through a dozen HTML hacks that most developers don't know these days.

I believed such handmade web would align with the HN community, and someone even upvoted the post before it was flagged.

So, my question is, why wasn't HN the right place for such post?



Someone didn't like it and flagged it. It happens. I've just "vouched" for it as I took a look and I genuinely find the idea quite cute/amusing (and I still host my late Uncle's FrontPage built site from 20 years old) but it may well get flagged again.

Fun bit of trivia: I noticed MS lost the FrontPage trademark not long ago, so maybe it's time for someone to build a new FrontPage ;-)


Thank you, Peter. Appreciated.

For me, a handmade web is a kind of seal, showing that the person is able to work with older techniques and therefore has most likely been in the industry for a long time.

And it's always amusing. If we take a look at the source code of the first page of Paul Graham's website (which was fairly created in a similar manner), we will find interesting comments and artifacts.


Possibly because it's a homepage for a for-profit business, making it look like you're trying to advertise or SEO. There are a lot of spam submissions to HN these days.

Create a similar page that doesn't contain any commercial content and follow the guidelines for Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and you might get more interest from HN readers.


Fairly, it's the homepage of an open-source (AGPL) software.

However, there is correctly no 'Show HN' label, as the subject is about the way the webpage is created, not about the software itself. You can create beautiful things or create things beautifully.




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