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I see lots of meta discussion, but very little discussion about news items on lobste.rs. All these meta issues strike me as Maserati Problems. The core value proposition of Lobste.rs is a better place to have discussions but no one seems to be discussing.... Whatdaya say, how about some more dis...

Everything is in the title, but here is some context: I recently noticed some of my comments in a thread were downvoted as "incorrect" for no reason obvious to me. I recognize that participants in a discussion can disagree and I'm of course ok with that. It can even fuel the discussion in a posit...

Is there any interest in making Lobsters degrade gracefully so it can function correctly without javascript? Currently many features do not work without javascript, such as upvoting, flagging, replying/previewing. If there is interest from jcs and the community I would gladly submit some pull requ...

* Flag: spam? * New tag: "paywall content"? * Something else?

Hi Lobsters, As you probably know, node.js is a framework for developing server applications on javascript. It is a relevant piece of software [that attracts many developers](http://thenewstack.io/javascript-popularity-surpasses-java-php-stack-overflow-developer-survey/) and, if only for that, me...

In the past couple days, I've seen several users point out that there's no way to flag story as incorrect, whereas we do have that option for comments.

It seems that space-related news regularly gets posted. Whether it's a NASA-related tech article, a space-related discovery, or astronomical or solar system science news. Generally these sorts of articles are posted under the generic "science" tag, but I think having a "space" will be useful as a di...

Something that happens often: I find a link that's fascinating, but the lobste.rs discussion either isn't there or adds nothing. I want to link directly to the content discussed, but don't want to copy a long URL. Is there some way to munge the URL to go directly to the linked content?

Subtitle: Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp This is an Internet Archive link because the page is currently broken on the author's site (and has been for years). Some of the formatting has been lost but it is still very readable.

I never get a good feeling when someone posts a link to their own blog here. At a minimum it feels like a misalignment of incentives, and when it happens enough over time it seems indistinguishable from spam. Even if you're really proud of an idea you had and think it's topical and interesting I thi...