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What's are you doing differently versus r/cars over at reddit which already has over 2.3 million subs in their community?
I guess a lot of the most current and interesting information about those topics stays locked within auto manufacturers.
So, I was obviously interested, but this is not the content I expected.
I would not categorize it as auto industry news, more like auto consumer news.
I was hoping for content similar to the articles in moderndealership.com, or ‘Dealer News Magazine’.
More business-side, less enthusiast.
The initial posts seem mostly be either 1) reviews, 2) "wrapper articles" for auto manufacturers' press releases, or 3) articles about industry-relevant public policy. These are all appropriate for a HN-like community, but I was expecting to see a lot more highly technical articles too. Topics like engine designs, control systems, manufacturing processes, etc., written by engineers. I guess a lot of the most current…
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.
The password reset and login form leaks account info in the network response. You should return the same network response regardless of whether the user exists in the DB, instead of relying on the UI to communicate that.
Logging into your site sends back the full account profile object, including the password 'hash', which appears to just be a Base64 encoded string. Fortunately the Firebase API redacts that field so the decoded string is just 'REDACTED', but that's not a good thing to rely on, and I hope the password is actually encrypted behind the scenes..
Both of these are unfortunately common mistakes you see even on more well known sites.
Goodluck with everything.
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.
Ahahah there's no excuse whatsoever that my supercomputer takes 4 or 5 seconds to load a page with text and some images. Also, my browser already has a loading animation thank you very much. No need to load an animation to tell me that you're loading the page.
The initial posts seem mostly be either 1) reviews, 2) "wrapper articles" for auto manufacturers' press releases, or 3) articles about industry-relevant public policy. These are all appropriate for a HN-like community, but I was expecting to see a lot more highly technical articles too. Topics like engine designs, control systems, manufacturing processes, etc., written by engineers. I guess a lot of the most current…
The youtube channel Engineering Explained is probably as close to that as you'll get. It's mostly about technology already available though, not much content on future tech still in the R&D phase. https://www.youtube.com/user/EngineeringExplained/videos
Can I ride your coattails and introduce a "Hacker news" we made just for Cybersecurity?: https://cyber.report/
As long as we can give you some honest feedback: your extremely low contrast color choices make this a nightmare to read. Otherwise, I think it's a lot truer to "HN for X" than OP.
I just ran our site through the Web Accessibility contrast checker at webaim.org to compare the headlines (what we think people want to scan and focus on) to the background. The contrast score is a very high and passing 14.5/1 ratio.
We make the micro text more subdued on purpose to make scanning the headlines easier.
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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.
Part of HackerNews's community is because you can load the page on a potato. I remember someone mentioning that they frequent HN from the middle of the ocean.