That "version history" page is just a changelog. It also doesn't make sense unless people know what the project is.
The other projects you mentioned are orders of magnitude better known and have been discussed a ton on HN. In that scenario we take a completely different approach. I wrote about this at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428. Funnily enough it happened to be in a thread about Inkscape.
When a project has never been discussed before on HN, we routinely change URLs to the project home page so that people get a chance to learn about it. In the current case the project had been discussed before, but only a couple times and not since 2017—that binds more closely to the "never-discussed" scenario than the "much-discussed" one, which is why I changed the URL.
If you look at the last paragraph of the post I just linked to, where it says "For obscure projects", you'll notice an explanation of exactly what I did in the current case. But the "no one is unhappy with the mods" part has now officially been falsified!
The other projects you mentioned are orders of magnitude better known and have been discussed a ton on HN. In that scenario we take a completely different approach. I wrote about this at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428. Funnily enough it happened to be in a thread about Inkscape.
When a project has never been discussed before on HN, we routinely change URLs to the project home page so that people get a chance to learn about it. In the current case the project had been discussed before, but only a couple times and not since 2017—that binds more closely to the "never-discussed" scenario than the "much-discussed" one, which is why I changed the URL.
If you look at the last paragraph of the post I just linked to, where it says "For obscure projects", you'll notice an explanation of exactly what I did in the current case. But the "no one is unhappy with the mods" part has now officially been falsified!