This morning I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title 'Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish' from 'google.com'. Thankfully I was too soon out of deep sleep to have a physiological reaction... It certainly woke me up though!
Hahahahaha YEah, i actually thought the article would be something like " Since our pricing model is not well received, and we can not fund the project without charging heavily, and no one wants to pay, well byebye?!"
Uhm, for some reason it didn't even cross my mind such possibility. Instantly thought it was someone quitting GMaps for some other tool, and that's what it was.
Afterwards I did ponder why it was showing google.com domain, and yes, I can understand it can be misleading.
I had the same reaction. In this case I think I would have had the same reaction even with a subdomain since Google has started to announce things on their various Google+ Pages.
Github pages is another common cause of confusion here. I constantly see links to "github.com" which are really links to "randomgithubpage.github.com" with the rather important subdomain cut off.
Noobs keep asking for this feature almost daily now and pg kills the post every time, because you're not supposed to ask like this. Feature requests go in the feature requests page at the link in the bottom. Or just upvote the link by gauravgupta, it's on that page.
Not that I want to dive into 'yet another typical silly internet argument (TM)', but those seems to me to be tongue-in-cheek geek references whereas your comment carried the immature snark of 'lol you n00b' which I come to hn to avoid.
I'm afraid you're looking for something that just isn't there. Now this feature request is a good idea in my opinion, that's why I'm suggesting to upvote it on the Feature Requests page and not just make another post that will get killed and ignored.
I think it is a really bad way to gauge community interest on the feature requests page because very few will see it. Not much in the way of features gets added to HN so its only like to happen if pg and co decide it themselves or there is a heap of community interest.
If you want that on the front page, I think it would make it too busy.
I also don't really see its utility in the comment section either--if I'm here, I can either get the information I want from the comments or skim the article. Having a summary would encourage more people to read less articles before commenting; this is something endemic to Slashdot and not a good thing.
So since this seems like it would be dead simple to add, and the desire for it is clearly there among many users...
There must be some downside to adding it that I'm missing. Outside of some potential for people with domains to use it for humor, or for tracking in some way, I can't see much.
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Afterwards I did ponder why it was showing google.com domain, and yes, I can understand it can be misleading.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455114
I see the subdomain (playlatam.wordpress.com) shown as requrested.
https://gist.github.com/1522657
To install, simply go to that gist and click "Raw" on Chrome, or on Firefox with Greasemonkey installed
works fantastically
implement the feature request and everybody is happy.
I also don't really see its utility in the comment section either--if I'm here, I can either get the information I want from the comments or skim the article. Having a summary would encourage more people to read less articles before commenting; this is something endemic to Slashdot and not a good thing.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374
More than 2 years have been passed and not a single feedback or improvement has been made.
There must be some downside to adding it that I'm missing. Outside of some potential for people with domains to use it for humor, or for tracking in some way, I can't see much.
Anyone else got any idea why not?