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elpauer is a personal blog at elpauer.org about programming and writing. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “KDE is not the right place for Thunderbird”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link elpauer.org posts on Thunderbird's place under KDE and on Chinese tablet makers and the GPLv2. The links are cited as related reading, with no direct judgement of the writing.

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. KDE is not the right place for Thunderbird
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Related: KDE is not the right place for Thunderbid http://www.elpauer.org/2016/04/kde-is-not-the-right-place-fo...

    Comment linking /2016/04/kde-is-not-the-right-place-for-thunderbid/

    on “Firefox and Thunderbird: A Fork in the Road”
  2. Submitted The most stupid C bug ever as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. This comment is full of interesting info: http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1146&cpage=1#comment-101986 Things are in this case a lot better than it seems at first.

    Comment linking /?p=1146&

    on “Chinese Tablet Manufacturers breaking the GPLv2”
  4. Submitted Chinese Tablet Manufacturers breaking the GPLv2 as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted KDE is not the right place for Thunderbird as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted HTML5 for everything? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 All for Participation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Mark’s divisive leadership as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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