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KajMagnus commented on Show HN: Blog comments, nice looking, open source – Talkyard   blog-comments.talkyard.io... · Posted by u/KajMagnus
KajMagnus · 3 months ago
> It comes off as dishonest to mention features that may be implemented at some point in the future

Thanks, good to know. (Will fix)

> a lot of asterisks and clarifications that might confuse users

Yes! People email and ask about the pricing more often than I thought.

> It's also mentioned that a credit card is not needed for the trial, but then you will email users about how to pay. Maybe this should be clarified on this page?

Hmm. Yes, there could be something about "if you want to continue after the free trial".

> It seems that you're not a native English speaker

That's right

> but I would suggest hiring someone who is, and has experience in writing technical documentation to revise your entire site, so that it can have a more professional appearance. These days LLMs can also be helpful with this

Ok :- ) First, all the LLMs, then a human I guess.

Thanks for all the ideas. Sorry for the late (8 days) reply.

Just started reading The E-Myth Revisited, hopefully that, plus the sleepiness problem being mostly gone, can put things in better order.

KajMagnus · 3 months ago
@imiric

> Though I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page, and removing all the "later" features.

Now done — all "Later: ..." features are gone, and I did a general revision of the copy on the pricing pages, based on what you wrote, and based on Gemini's and ChatGPT's feedback (when I copy-pasted the HTML into the AI chats — they had many pages feedback).

> These days LLMs can also be helpful with this

They were amazingly helpful. Thanks for suggesting! I'll ask them to review the whole website, like you suggested, some time later too.

KajMagnus commented on Show HN: Blog comments, nice looking, open source – Talkyard   blog-comments.talkyard.io... · Posted by u/KajMagnus
imiric · 3 months ago
> The pricing page? If you want & have time to write a bit more, that'd be interesting.

I suppose my main criticism was about the "later" features. It comes off as dishonest to mention features that may be implemented at some point in the future on a page meant to inform potential customers about what they would be paying for _today_. So I would suggest to only promote fully-working features, and leave future features for a roadmap page linked elsewhere.

Other than that I would say that there are a lot of asterisks and clarifications that might confuse users. The page looks overloaded with information that is not well structured IMO. It's also mentioned that a credit card is not needed for the trial, but then you will email users about how to pay. Maybe this should be clarified on this page? And there are minor visual details like inconsistent font sizes, font weights, and parenthesis usage (e.g. why is "Idle blogs" between bold parenthesis?).

It seems that you're not a native English speaker, and that's fine (neither am I), but I would suggest hiring someone who is, and has experience in writing technical documentation to revise your entire site, so that it can have a more professional appearance. These days LLMs can also be helpful with this, as long as you set their tone and review their output.

Good luck!

KajMagnus · 3 months ago
> It comes off as dishonest to mention features that may be implemented at some point in the future

Thanks, good to know. (Will fix)

> a lot of asterisks and clarifications that might confuse users

Yes! People email and ask about the pricing more often than I thought.

> It's also mentioned that a credit card is not needed for the trial, but then you will email users about how to pay. Maybe this should be clarified on this page?

Hmm. Yes, there could be something about "if you want to continue after the free trial".

> It seems that you're not a native English speaker

That's right

> but I would suggest hiring someone who is, and has experience in writing technical documentation to revise your entire site, so that it can have a more professional appearance. These days LLMs can also be helpful with this

Ok :- ) First, all the LLMs, then a human I guess.

Thanks for all the ideas. Sorry for the late (8 days) reply.

Just started reading The E-Myth Revisited, hopefully that, plus the sleepiness problem being mostly gone, can put things in better order.

KajMagnus commented on Show HN: Blog comments, nice looking, open source – Talkyard   blog-comments.talkyard.io... · Posted by u/KajMagnus
imiric · 4 months ago
Kudos for working on this for such a long time! You've clearly put a lot of thought into a good discussion system. I like the distinction between liking and disagreeing. I may like a comment because of what it adds to the discussion, and disagree with it at the same time. The two are often used interchangeably here and on Reddit, which is a shame.

Though I still like Slashdot's voting system the most. Granular votes for specific categories: informative, insightful, offtopic, etc. Limited amount of votes per user, and IIRC the vote quota increases with rank/karma.

BTW, there's a typo on your Pricing page: "The more interesting commets first", and the links under "Old plans" return 404. Though I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page, and removing all the "later" features.

KajMagnus · 4 months ago
> I like the distinction between liking and disagreeing

Me too :- ) I'm thinking that if something gets 10 upvotes, and sth else get 10 upvotes and 10 disagree votes, then more often it's the latter that's more interesting to read?

There's also an Unwanted vote, for things that are too off-topic or rude etc, similar to how downvotes work here at HN.

Slashdot's vote system I like too :- ) (Maybe the vote system could be pluggable in the distant future.) — There's also half implemented Do-It votes and Do-Not votes, for ideas and upcoming Joint Decision topic types.

> commets ... and the links under "Old plans" return 404

Oh, thanks! Hadn't noticed. They work from here: www.talkyard.io/pricing (the www subdomain), but from the blog-comments and education subdomains, all those "Old plans" links are broken. (So I'll need to point the links to the www subdomain.)

> I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page,

The pricing page? If you want & have time to write a bit more, that'd be interesting.

(Or if you're too short of time, I guess I can ask someone who works with UX & pricing)

> and removing all the "later" features.

Hmm, someone else has mentioned this too. Maybe there can be a "Show-later" checkbox, default un-ticked.

Thanks for the thoughts & feedback!

KajMagnus commented on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
nly · 4 months ago
And the best healthcare money can buy anywhere in the world.
KajMagnus · 4 months ago
Doctors aren't that useful, unfortunately
KajMagnus commented on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
xNeil · 4 months ago
Not by Buffett, but you'll love Poor Charlie's Alamanack, by Charlie Munger, his lifelong business partner.

https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack/cover

KajMagnus · 4 months ago
It's a great book (I think), reading it now. It's the only book this far that I've brought with me to the gym (because I wanted to continue reading it, in between the exercises)
KajMagnus commented on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
paulpauper · 4 months ago
Munger was still going strong at 99, good genes both of them, i guess
KajMagnus · 4 months ago
Having friends also contributes to living longer (Buffet and Charlie)
KajMagnus commented on Evolving Scala   scala-lang.org/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/pjmlp
bishabosha · 5 months ago
What do you want from the ecosystem?
KajMagnus · 5 months ago
I'd like better debugging of async call stacks. Seems that'll start working better, with Java 21 and virtual threads, so looking forward to that.

And support for Scala in [web frameworks for Java].

Still on Scala 2.13, so don't know what 3.* I'd want, more than what already exist

KajMagnus commented on European Cloud Computing Platforms   european-alternatives.eu/... · Posted by u/doener
KajMagnus · 6 months ago
Anyone has tried GleSYS? https://glesys.com

They're based out of Sweden, and offer bandwidth in Mbit/s, rather than GB/month (as per their pricing page, https://glesys.com/vps/pricing)

KajMagnus commented on Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs   theverge.com/news/624254/... · Posted by u/aaronbrethorst
throwaway48476 · 6 months ago
This isn't 'wrong' but only accounts for a two party market.
KajMagnus · 6 months ago
That's interesting, so, prices might not drop to pre-tariff levels, until not just one, but many, manufacturers appear in the US, and start competing on price (well, obviously, I guess some would say)

u/KajMagnus

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