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I'm writing the Modular JavaScript book series

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Modular JavaScript

Roasted

Half or more of the comments are critical

1 positive, 3 neutral or mixed, 6 critical. Score -0.38

LikedAuthor's JavaScript writing is well regarded

ObjectedRequiring a tweet to read is excessive and unwelcome

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Shown by bevacqua on Oct 26, 2016. Click the card to turn it over.

73points

16comments

#526of 2,264 in 2016

Top 24%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.

Privacy: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against

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Author's JavaScript writing is well regarded
From 1 comment
- At least for me, security isn't the concern. The problem is that I have no idea what I'm recommending. Have you considered letting users read a bit before asking for the Tweet?…
  brwr on HN
Looks like a cool series of books
From 1 comment
- I think it looks like a cool series of books. I also hate that you describe it as "free to read" but then require me to give you access to my Twitter account in order to read it.…
  joelgrus on HN
Color design is fun and whimsical
From 1 comment
- To me it looks different than the standard "grey text on white background with lots of whitespace and a few basic and/or muted colors" style that you see on the vast majority of…
  jordanlev on HN

Let readers sample content before asking for a tweet
From 1 comment
- At least for me, security isn't the concern. The problem is that I have no idea what I'm recommending. Have you considered letting users read a bit before asking for the Tweet?…
  brwr on HN
Remove tweet requirement entirely
From 2 comments
- I think it looks like a cool series of books. I also hate that you describe it as "free to read" but then require me to give you access to my Twitter account in order to read it.…
  joelgrus on HN
- I'd really want to check out the series. The twitter paywall is the only blocker.
  netskrill on HN

Why not cover build tools like grunt, gulp, and webpack in one book
From 1 comment
- Is there a reason you don't make a book dedicated to just dealing with grunt, gulp, browserify, babel, web pack, etc. instead of splitting some of each between ES6 and Universal…
  6DM on HN
Is this an O'Reilly book being crowdfunded
From 1 comment
- Wait, what? O'Reilly books are being crowdfunded now?
  clifanatic on HN

Free HTML books by Zed Shaw that don't require social sharing
From 1 comment
- I have to second others' concerns. Not because I distrust you -- in fact, because of your other contributions to JS development, I'm happy to spread the word...but that's the…
  danso on HN
Reading the book on GitHub without a tweet
From 2 comments
- Author here. Excellent question! That's because Twitter doesn't offer fine-grained control over what permissions you request. The website that asks for that stuff is…
  bevacqua on HN
- The book is also on Github without any required Twitter auth! https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-es6
  aarohmankad on HN