Wow, that's a boring attitude. I think it's great this guy is interested in typography and crafting his own fonts, and that the results are quite nice, professional or not, with the right principles or not.
Just don't get why it's on the front page before release though. I guess for comments, but add a place where I can sign up to be notified when it's done or something...
Sorry if I come across as too negative -- I definitely 100% support people trying out new things.
[Edit: I think the rest of this comment was too negative, and the guy submitting it doesn't seem to be the author of the font, which I didn't realize, so was perhaps not really applicable. Never mind!]
It's negative, but I can definitely appreciate the honesty. Those who don't like it can ignore it, but I'm happy to see comments like this peppered about rather than a series of congratulatory messages and "obligatory" pats on the back.
Providing real, honest feedback is the only useful reply. Kudos to you. If your assessment is negative, then provide negative feedback. If it's positive, positive. No need to over-flower everything, we're all trying to help each other around here.
While I agree with your original comments, not sure I agree with this. It's the #2 story on HN because HN readers upvoted it that way, no "fault" of this guy. And being on HN, I think it is the perfect forum for feedback, the guy even states criticism is welcome, it's as much a learning process for him too.
A weird role reversal. Many of the tech communities on Reddit are garbage.
Then again, my first question upon seeing this on HN was "how on earth is this relevant/interesting? It's not even finished!" so discovering that the source for the submission was a tech subreddit is unsurprising.
From what I've seen, /r/programming is about as bad as any. But people read it anyway because there isn't really a better programming subreddit. (Some of the very specialized ones are better, like for specific languages, but the wide-audience subreddits seem to be full of people who do not have much experience and are more interested in one-upmanship than in talking shop.)
Just don't get why it's on the front page before release though. I guess for comments, but add a place where I can sign up to be notified when it's done or something...