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Elena Grandi

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Elena Grandi writes Elena ``of Valhalla'' Webpage, a personal blog at trueelena.org about programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Candy From Strangers”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Elena Grandi's blog for a guide to setting up a modern XMPP server. One commenter points to it as the thing to read for that purpose.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Candy From Strangers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. BuuQu9hu · 2017-01-18Recommends
    How many trustworthy and well administered XMPP servers are out there? BTW, for anyone wanting to setup a modern XMPP server, check out this: http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2017/debian/modern-and-secure... http://www.trueelena.org/computers/howto/modern_xmpp_server....

    Comment linking /computers/howto/modern_xmpp_server.html

    on “Show HN: ChatSecure iOS v4.0 – OMEMO and Signal Protocol”
  2. Submitted Candy From Strangers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Why the main domain https://www.trueelena.org/ looks that ugly?

    Comment linking /

    on “Modern XMPP Server”
  4. Submitted Candy from Strangers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Elena Grandi: The Cat Model of Package Ownership as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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