I must admit, while nice, I never understand the upvotes for such icon collections? I'd expect that if you started using them, you'd inevitably quickly find that you miss some crucial icons, which you would then commission from the original creator. So these collections are merely ads?
I wish the artists all the best, just don't understand the HN appeal. (This is also not a "not HN material" post, it's a question, as these collections appear to be a recurring thing).
I almost routinely upvote useful stuff that people create and then make available for others to use. It's almost universally positive stuff. Decent icon sets tend to be particularly useful to the more technically and less artistically oriented crowd on HN.
Sometimes I'll upvote things, especially icon set which I don't have a need for right that second, as an ad-hoc bookmark so I can find it later under my "saved stories".
And this is why a "save story" feature should be added. I do this too and it's probably breaking the logic behind why upvote exists in the first place.
Not really. I've seen plenty of extensions to the glyphicons released with Twitter Bootstrap that match the style. I use such an extension in one of my projects.
I really don't see how design is different than a coding style in that aspect.
I wish the artists all the best, just don't understand the HN appeal. (This is also not a "not HN material" post, it's a question, as these collections appear to be a recurring thing).