A generic “Mongo 4.2.6” title doesn’t help me decide whether to click on the link (especially with how light the domain is). I thought it was a release announcement and only clicked through to the comments because of yesterday’s discusssion.

An HN title needs to be read along with the site name to the right of it.

The styling of the site name makes it hard to scan. If it’s so essential, the font should be darker and bigger.

That's a fair point, but people have a lot of contradictory preferences about things like that. I think I'd rather address this by allowing more customization of the site. Still thinking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199264.

As I said there, I’d like to see that added

Ah so you did! I missed that.

And taken out of context it makes little sense.

Well... it's the articles second H1 header. The title is "Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6".

No context doesn't help.