alt Hacker News> I am deeply baffled by this kind of response.
No you're not. You're just trying to respond with something witty.
It's a message board with 1% of the functionality most sites people are building with frameworks.
> Firstly, because this site happily handles the amount of traffic that puts many hobbyist sites that happen to get on its front page into a hug of death;
Lol are you really implying it's hard to scale a message board?
> One does not need a super popular front-end framework to make an awesome web product, and the HackerNews site is a testament to that.
IT'S A MESSAGE BOARD. Nobody is building message boards anymore. Using HN as an example for anything other than building a dirt simple message boardsays more about your refusal to recognize the need to these new technologies than it does about those technologies.
> awesome web product
A. Message. Board.
> Lol are you really implying it's hard to scale a message board?
I am implying that it is beyond the "3 pages from W3Schools", as you put it.
> A. Message. Board.
Yes. A fast, reliable, accessible message board that I and many others thoroughly enjoy. An awesome product.
Again, I have never suggested that its ui is complex. In fact, it's glorious how simple it is. This is the point that those htmx people make: use simple tools for simple UIs; and also, try to make your UIs simple.