Tech and related content is generally global. Auto news on the other hand is usually localized, and locally relevant.
Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
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#12This might seem facetious, but the cookie warning really threw me off. It doesn't really matter, I canbjust click past it, but instantly in my head:
"This isn't HN for anything. Some marketing something or other I guess..."
I think, for a dedicated/techy crowd, little things like a cookie warning mean a lot. To me it screams crap. I can't think of a single website I use enjoy using regularly that included a cookie warning. I think Reddit added a cookie warning when their UI went to shit.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#13One of the things HN gets right is in my opinion the classic basic design. I wish you would have recreated that.
Thanks for the feedback. The main reason why I went for the combination of pictures and text was that many car enthusiast like the visual aspect of cars and therefore I kept the images as well.
For what's its worth - Circular images are a fad created for avatars (pictures of people with their heads fitting inside the circle). You're showing images embedded in the article and IMO should be rectangular.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#14Cookie popup. Loading spinner. Not enough Hacker News for me :)
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#15Hi all, I made this project to help myself stay up to date with automotive industry because I love cars and anything related to them. It gathers the latest automotive news from more than 20 auto portals. Allows users to submit articles, comment, and upvote. I got quite literally inspired by HN and was mindblown why such a thing does not exist for automotive industry. Also users can subscribe to a newsletter that deli…
If some of them are aggregated, while others are submitted, it is not clear to me to tell them apart, nor where an aggregated story came from. One just says "Submitted by Carol", but I cannot click on the name to learn anything more. I also notice you hotlink all the images, you might want to contemplate re-hosting the images yourself, or abandon the images altogether.
Hi, thanks for the feedback. In the long term, you will be able to click and see the user behind the submission. However it's still in TODO column atm. But will def add it as this feedback is so valid. Good shout about splitting the automated/submitted content.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#16Tech and related content is generally global. Auto news on the other hand is usually localized, and locally relevant.
Hi, yeah, that's a very good point. Have not considered this fact. Hmmm...
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#17Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. The main reason why I went for the combination of pictures and text was that many car enthusiast like the visual aspect of cars and therefore I kept the images as well.
For what's its worth - Circular images are a fad created for avatars (pictures of people with their heads fitting inside the circle). You're showing images embedded in the article and IMO should be rectangular.
I agree with this. Also, the page shouldn't be centered like that.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#19One of the things HN gets right is in my opinion the classic basic design. I wish you would have recreated that.
Thanks for the feedback. The main reason why I went for the combination of pictures and text was that many car enthusiast like the visual aspect of cars and therefore I kept the images as well.
I think the thumbnails add too much white space between headlines and doesn't actually show enough to be useful. Like if there's a press release of a new model or spy photos, I want to see all the pictures from all angles and not a zoomed in crop of a singular headlight. As of right now I'm only see 3 thumbnails of the top 10 with a picture of a vehicle.
Also (old.)reddit already does the small thumbnail and headline thing. I like the hackernews layout for its information density.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#20This might seem facetious, but the cookie warning really threw me off. It doesn't really matter, I canbjust click past it, but instantly in my head: "This isn't HN for anything. Some marketing something or other I guess..." I think, for a dedicated/techy crowd, little things like a cookie warning mean a lot. To me it screams crap. I can't think of a single website I use enjoy using regularly that included a cookie wa…
Hi, I honestly hate the cookie banner myself - that's why I made it as much invisible as possible. But I'm using Google's Firebase for user authentication and therefore it uses cookies. I also store your choice of theme dark/light into a cookie so it's there for you next time. I believe that's why I have to have the banner there. Or am I wrong?