Some of the april fools things can be annoying, but I have a big shrug for there being less real news for a day. Anything important will get through and most days don't have much interesting news anyway.
replyI feel bad for you. That's a lot of anger over virtually nothing.
replyWould you be annoyed if HN went offline just for the hell of it for a day every year?
replyBut you're right, I was an extremely angry person back then. Many years of therapy and deliberate ongoing work and I'm a radically different man. Thank goodness I got to the other side.
Would you be annoyed if HN went offline just for the hell of it for a day every year?
replyNo. Not even a little. HN is not food. HN is not water. HN is not my family or my job or in any way vital to my life. It's an amusement. A diversion.
I am not a FOMO victim.