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Lightmeter
Company blog · lightmeter.ioprogrammingbusiness
Lightmeter is the company blog at lightmeter.io, writing about programming and business. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Lightmeter's global email map, a 2021 survey of mail servers, as data on Postfix adoption. Other comments discuss its Postfix monitoring project and marketing site.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I'm having trouble understanding why you posted this when it's just the mirror of the actual repo on gitlab[0], AND the page is really just config details, not a lot of description.. but then I notice you've posted the marketing website[1] several times and it just hasn't got traction. Fickle HN votes, I guess. For my money, I find https://lightmeter.io more useful, even the video intros. [0]: https://gitlab.com/lig…
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Monitoring and automation for email servers, starting with Postfix”Submitted Why trademark Open Source software as a story · 79 points
HN discussionAre they? I'm seeing self-hosted Postfix as the most common mail server in scans. For free, personal email hosting I agree but that's just a fraction of the market. https://lightmeter.io/global-email-map-2021/
Comment linking /global-email-map-2021/
on “Lemmy Instances”Submitted Show HN: New Lightmeter demo generator lets you try it out in seconds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Googledown happens every day for mailops admins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightmeter awarded support by Open Technology Fund as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Open Source Feedback Gap: Freedom vs. Convenience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightmeter – Deliverability Monitoring as a story · 1 points
HN discussion