Thanks, we merged that thread into this one.

Edit: we created a new copy of this submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252817 and moved the comments there.

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.

Seems like the author posted in 20h before himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243800

The original submission of this topic was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243800, posted over 22 hours ago by the project creator.

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.

Could you explain to me what is the appeal of chasing karma? I understand it at the beginning, when it unlocks features, but not after that.

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.