Ask HN: Please write descriptive titles for your HN submissions

6 points by workhere-io ↗ HN
Lately there have been several submissions on the HN front page having only the name of a product or company in its title:

- "Exist"

- "WebFlow"

- "TrackR"

- "MoarVM"

- "Atom"

In those cases users have to click the link in order to find out what the product/company does. Although I understand why that would be useful for the company submitting the link, it's a waste of time for the rest of us when we click the links and find out that the product/company is something that doesn't interest us.

So can we please agree to write more descriptive titles that give users an idea of what's on the page being linked to?

Here are some examples of how it should be done:

- "Coalesce – Communication framework for distributed JavaScript"

- "Notepad5 – a simple offline notepad webapp, distraction-free writing zone"

- "Iconic – An Icon System Designed for the Modern Web"

- "Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial"

3 comments

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It will just get reverted by the mods. If the "title" on the page is uninformative, so will be the title on HN.
So, let's start asking for more descriptive text on page titles, which will probably help the page owners as well :)
PG has said why HN will always revert to the original title. I would link the post but hn search on iOS is hopeless.