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I think you make very good points but wonder if you could have softened the delivery a bit.
Why? It's a great delivery. It may sound harsh only to our truth-allergic world of big corps.
Hi 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…
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Valid critiques but could be a bit softer towards somebody putting themselves out there. (edited)
I don't think it's snotty. The criticism is valid and straightforward. Your comment, on the other hand, brings up the person's post history to make a personal attack. It doesn't address the point being made in any way. This is not the sort of behaviour that's expected on HN.
Can I ride your coattails and introduce a "Hacker news" we made just for Cybersecurity?: https://cyber.report/
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What is the classic design of automotive? That’s the question to ask IMO. Paul Graham wrote about automobile design in an essay.
Do you think you could find the essay? I'd love to read it
Why does it say a post has 12 comments, but when I open it it has 0? Or from 14 comments it has only 2?
He's either tallying the count in a column (which is wrong after moderation), or caching the main page.
What's are you doing differently versus r/cars over at reddit which already has over 2.3 million subs in their community?
Gratuitous images by each story, slow enough to load that it benefits from a cutesy loading spinner, cookies for tailored marketing, email signup box after the 10th story, fat banner that uses the hamburger menu icon but doesn’t trust it to be communicative enough so also has “Menu” in text on the button... That’s...not a Hacker News for X.
I agree with your larger point but in a different way — Hacker News is not defined by UI, but community. I’m sure that there is a Hacker News for auto out there already, I’d guess it’s a myBB forum.
Gratuitous images by each story, slow enough to load that it benefits from a cutesy loading spinner, cookies for tailored marketing, email signup box after the 10th story, fat banner that uses the hamburger menu icon but doesn’t trust it to be communicative enough so also has “Menu” in text on the button... That’s...not a Hacker News for X.
I agree with your larger point but in a different way — Hacker News is not defined by UI, but community. I’m sure that there is a Hacker News for auto out there already, I’d guess it’s a myBB forum.
This 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?