The site then went down due HN's traffic load. (I guess a vape-hosted website isn't "web scale").
The author shared the blog post, but we didn't see it. It was only much later (7 hours ago), that dmazin submitted the blog post as this submission. (No criticism, they were just being helpful and posting the blog post so the community could see it).
Out of fairness to the original submitter and author, we've created a new copy of their submission, set the blog post as the URL and moved the comments there. That way it gets its full chance at front page exposure, and the project creator gets the credit and karma, which they are entitled to, having submitted it first.
You keep the karma you've already received, but the project creator submitted the original post and also included the blog post in the comments (after it was too late to change the post URL) and we always prefer to give precedence to the person who submitted the first post about a topic. It's not personal or unusual, it's the way we've moderated HN for years.
Previously discussed, but I think that first submission fell off the frontpage early because it linked directly to the vapeserver which instantly died under load: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243800
I'm suddenly randomly curious about the backend (or frontend?) tools y'all folks use to do this sorta thing here on HN (and to manage the site in general). Is it web-based like the site itself, or CLI? GUI even? I presume the whole thing is mostly database-driven "under the hood" like a lotta these kinda sites, yeah?
As an ex-web designer, it's always fascinated me; the many different approaches people have come up with to managing various web properties, despite the core similarities underlying them all.
The dev shared their own work yesterday, it got attention and discussion, they added the blog post to the discussion, all was well, and then this submitter reposts the blog a day later, not their own content, and you're merging here? c'mon now. Give the source/dev some credit.
OK fair enough. It's hard to re-up an older active thread, so we created a new copy of this one and moved the comments there. That way the original submitter (and post author) gets the credit and (most of) the points.
