For a moment, I though this was about my video and article, but reading the comments, it's more about everyone sharing their stories. Few of the comments reflect having read the article. Fair enough, sometimes it just takes a link to give theme for a discussion.
If I've learnt anything from reading Hacker News for a few years it's that I would take this as a compliment that the article did a good in covering any aspect we might be curious about and answer any questions we might have had. For example the fact that you did the experiment with an empty and full freezer and with empty boxes vs food pretty much preempts any nit-picks you might get from people in this this thread.
Hi Matthias. I'm a long-time fan of your projects and website. Built myself a bandsaw thanks to your plans, played around with imgcomp just the other day, etc.
But one thing I've noticed about HN comments is that they are almost always _tangential_ to the content being linked rather than directly about the content itself. I saw this happen the one or two times my own blogging hit the front page. I suspect a large percentage of users simply head straight to the comments section to tell their own story. (Or, unfortunately, to find something to argue with someone else about.)
I read the article with interest. Thanks for taking the time.
My father-in-law forever refused to buy an upright freezer because "as soon as you open the door, all the cold air falls out." Which I now know to be only partially correct.
I am a fan of your site and appreciate your thoughtful writing, but I found that I could not get very far through this article on mobile (and I usually read HN on mobile, not desktop). The problem is the layout. The font is small, and if you zoom in, it does not wrap.
I have noticed this is the past, it's not the first time that one of your articles has been linked on Hacker News. And I always thought it was strange, because you appear to use very minimal CSS styling, that word-wrapping would not work properly "out of the box".
Looking at this page now (on my laptop) I see that everything is inside of a fixed width (1150px) table, so that explains it.
Have you thought about changing your pages to use a more mobile-friendly setup, like a flexbox layout?
I imagine now that you have hundreds of pages and years of content under your belt (quite an impressive site!) it might be difficult to make such a change on all of your content!
For what it's worth op, I'd be happy to help script out a process for extracting your old content into a new format (something like markdown so you can use whatever site generator tickles your fancy) and it's one I've scripted a few times before. Feel free to drop me an email.
For a moment, I though this was about my video and article, but reading the comments, it's more about everyone sharing their stories. Few of the comments reflect having read the article. Fair enough, sometimes it just takes a link to give theme for a discussion.