I mean sure, I can probably find Lazarus if searching for a Delphi IDE. But please explain: what's the advantage? They save a couple of bytes in storage for the forum post, and besides that, what do you get apart from a sense of elitism due to those outside of the ecosystem not getting much from the announcement post? I don't see anything besides gatekeeping.
Fewer people will know the project in the context it's meant to be used. That seems strictly negative. What's the positive?
I thought the upside was pretty obvious, but perhaps there is such an age and culture gap that it has to be said out loud: I'm all for people exercising (and thus, strengthening) their research and patience skills. And complaining about how not every post on HN is a pretty landing page pitching a product is a spit in the face of that. Some communities don't attract people like this and rightly so. I grew up in a RTFM & RTFS culture (and it was awesome!), so perhaps we might never reconcile our differences.
Hmm yes, I will have to trust my well developed strengths to find deliberately hidden information. Well communicated, that is exactly what I wrote and meant. You know, with this exchange of ideas we probably inspired a lot of ten year olds about: searching the other things like that thing you just saw, and clicking more than once.
Fewer people will know the project in the context it's meant to be used. That seems strictly negative. What's the positive?