On: Time.gif

[lisper]

OK, well, that's true. But is sending an animated gif instead of jpegs really that much of an innovation? If I did the same thing using, say, APNGs would HN go crazy over that?

[Retra → lisper]

Nobody is going crazy, they are simply learning things. If you've got something to teach, HN will probably like it.

Though I'm not sure why you even care what HN likes. It certainly isn't measured in units of innovation, as you seem to think it should.

[lisper → Retra]

Maybe "going crazy" was overstating it. But it has >350 upvotes, and a lot of comments like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14997202

"This is absolutely awesome."

I'm just trying to understand why people think it's "absolutely awesome." It seems, at best, mildly interesting to me.

[always_good → lisper]

This is textbook middlebrow dismissal.

Let's turn it around. Why do you think it's so important that we understand how unimpressed and uninterested you are?

This is a simple, accessible project that people think is fun. They upvoted it.

[lisper → always_good]

OK.