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Matthew Paul Thomas

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Matthew Paul Thomas's personal blog at mpt.net.nz covers design and programming. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2008–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

HN readers point to Matthew Paul Thomas's posts on why free software has poor usability and how to improve it. Commenters mention an older 2008 article on the same topic and its follow-up.

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.

This is the original archive for 'My First 48 Hours Enduring Mac OS X' by Matthew Paul Thomas. Now hosted at domspcrepairs.com.au/mac

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-08-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. statictype · 2012-06-02
    Interestingly, his older and popular (and I felt much better written) article on free software usability ( http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability ) seems to redirect to this one.

    Comment linking /archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

    on “Why free software has poor usability, and how to improve it”
  2. cheeaun · 2012-06-02

    Submitted Why free software has poor usability, and how to improve it as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  3. ZeroGravitas · 2009-05-21
    Same author's follow-up from late 2008: "Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it" http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

    Comment linking /archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

    on “Why Free Software usability tends to suck”
  4. dylan · 2008-08-03

    Submitted Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. mbrubeck · 2009-09-17

    Submitted Usability evaluation: Empathy and Pidgin as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. TaurenHunter · 2023-11-18

    Submitted Bill Gates' predictions about speech recognition: a historical review as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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