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People should be able to connect from their car I guess. I'm not sure it would work as is. HN would. It's just the beginning, post the update.
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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.
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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.
Of course it may have perceived flaws. Do you choose to beat the person for doing it that way, or do you want to offer gentle advice in order to help them? The motive behind the comment is hidden in its delivery.
You can say your truth, all of it - but you can say it in a nice way or in a shitty way. How you say it will define you.
I also find it hard to believe that submissions on this site are already accumulating >700 points, surpassing most HN submissions.
On top of that, there are few, if any, comments for every upvote. One submission has 728 points but no comments?
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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.
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All the top stories seem very consumer oriented, not for professionals in the industry. From a cursory glance it seems more like a "car enthusiast" news site rather than a place for industry discussion.
I've spent much of my career in the auto industry (Tier 1 supplier), and I couldn't agree more. I'm even a "car guy," but I could care less about exotic cars, which most of what appears on autonews.io.
What are good car sites?
The top submission says it has 14 comments, but then you click on it and it only has three. I also find it hard to believe that submissions on this site are already accumulating >700 points, surpassing most HN submissions. On top of that, there are few, if any, comments for every upvote. One submission has 728 points but no comments?
I think that some trolls have gotten to the site already.
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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.
That's an interesting thought though; does the UI of HN help to foster this community in any way? I would argue it absolutely does given the amount of people I see (myself included) that hate designs like the new Reddit, for example. I would then argue that the UI of HN does indeed play an important role in defining it.
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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.
Ok, we didn't hear that input before so thank you we will see how to improve that. See in the top right icons there is a 'moon' that turns on a night time mode, might be helpful. 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…
Some text on your site is too light, and the contrast is meh. Otherwise, nice site, I'll be sure to check it out again in color tomorrow :)