I don't get it, is there some sort of news about YUI, or are you just professing your love for it?

The news would be all the new functions they've added and the continuing development they are doing (many in beta), but basically I'm using the system and finding it to be truly impressive and wanted to give those Yahoo!s some credit (and let others know about the great value they're building over there.) Also, Yahoo! has been having a rough time lately yet they continue to innovate which is very good news.

We're using YUI pretty extensively at my startup HubSpot.

Beyond the functionality, one thing we really like is that Yahoo! is continuing to invest in the product, posting regular updates, and building a community around it.

You have one extremely nice webapp. The grading function is really impressive - nice work.

It is truly amazing what power you can add to your web app with very little coding thanks to YUI. Thank You Yahoo!! You guys rock.

Hey, it's great that you are enjoying it, but is your personal happiness really "Hacker News"? If you'd found something interesting to say about it, that would be different.

I'm kind of curious why people upvote this story. Is it just because they agree with the premise? Like the "vote this up if you love chocolate ice cream" genre on Reddit?

Indeed. I voted it up because i like YUI and would like to thank Yahoo for the work. I realized my mistake right after i clicked...

This is not a news entry and shouldn't be on HN. Perhaps a good way to go about showing your gratitude is to ask people here on how they use YUI and share that with Yahoo...or something like that.

For anyone who is developing a web app and is not aware that YUI is growing and getting better, I can't see why this wouldn't be newsworthy here.

Announcements about YUI might be news, a blogpost like "consider YUI for your next project! Here's why!" might be news. Your personal gratitude, while admirable, isn't news.

It's not my site, though, and I'm only expressing my personal opinion about what I like to see here. I prefer straight news and commentary, without Twitter-style observational chatter.

It's not newsworthy. You don't see people linking to ruby-lang.org and thanking Matz and the Ruby team for developing Ruby.

YUI is bloated.

backup your comment? In what sense is it bloated?

The fact that the zipped source weighs in at 10 MB?

You seem to be forgetting about the docs and the examples in there....