FWIW the submitter (who isn't affiliated with Sandstorm AFAIK) explains his reasoning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12104373

But lots and lots has changed in the last year. :)

What's changed? I'm on your mailing list and I don't recall anything.

Well...

* Oasis (managed hosting) was launched less than a year ago.

* That came together with a huge UI overhaul that introduced the sidebar / tabbed UI.

* It also came with the full app market, whereas before we only had a static HTML app list.

* We started offering free SSL certificates for self-hosted servers under sandcats.io.

* We introduced Sandstorm for Work, which integrates with LDAP / SAML (including Active Directory) for login, offers organizational user management features, etc.

* We added app signature verification via Keybase, proving that apps came from the twitter/github/HN user you expected.

* We implemented app update notifications with one-click updates.

* We added signature verification to the installation and update paths for Sandstorm itself.

* We enabled apps to serve WebDAV APIs, which enabled Davros (a file sync app) and Radicale (a CalDAV calendar app).

* The community wrote / packaged 30 new apps, bringing the total to 58.

* We added the ability to link multiple login services to a single account.

* We implemented the Powerbox grain picker, which allows you to share a grain through another app. (This will begin being used in real apps in the next couple weeks.)

* We added unified notifications and read/unread indicators, so you can keep track of activity across your grains.

* Many other, smaller things. See: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/master/CHANGE...

Sneaking in a feature request here:

Can we have update descriptions for apps as well?

Yeah, actually, that wouldn't be too hard for apps that ship a changelog.

Simply a repost - not a relaunch. And it might be new to a significant number of people. Personally I'm glad to see it hit the front page again.