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Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by mrzool »

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #110
dragonwriter wrote: post #96

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.

> Hacker News is not defined by UI

The HN community is of course fundamental, but HN is very much defined by its UI.

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by birdyrooster »

Fats wrote: post #144
frongpik wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? It's a great delivery. It may sound harsh only to our truth-allergic world of big corps.

I fail to see the connection to the "big corps" here, nor being allergic to the truth. This is about being nicer, as a human being. Becoming more empathetic towards a person who is showing their product for the world to see for the first time. 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 th…

really? at big corp people talk behind each other’s backs about how shitty each other are or another team is but never confront people directly until shit has hit the fan and someone is going on a permanent vacation

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by numlock86 »

Weird. When I visit HN I can see all posts from the front page without scrolling and read through the titles. On this page however I could barely see the first eight entries. Also there's a loading spinner for almost two seconds and multiple large image requests (some are really huge!) just to be displayed as a small circle. Ok? 11.7 MB for the front page. "Nice".

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by dspillett »

wingerlang wrote: post #165
systemvoltage wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN design and its spartan interface is an overwhelmingly and the primary reason for its success (of course content, people, moderation, etc as well). If it were a phpBB board, or a discourse forum, it just wouldn't be the same. People are addicted to this site for its usability and simplicity. We've seen mass exodus from Digg and Reddit. The inflection point is always design, 2008 when they messed up the Digg UX with…

> We've seen mass exodus from Digg and Reddit. Digg collapsed sure, but where does the Reddit exodus come from? Even IF they had people leave because of the design (which I doubt would be significant numbers) it would not be remotely comparable to Digg.

Digg's userbase collapsed so precipitously because there were alternatives already in competition (reddit itself, largely).

There isn't really somewhere "quite like reddit" enough for reddit users to march off to en-mass in the same way, though I, people I know, and I suspect a large number of others, visit reddit a lot less than we once did and hang around less once we are there. So rather than an exodus there is more an epidemic of "meh".

I certainly don't contribute to "communities" there these days - and I think many others with a similar attitude is why some significant subs have fallen to rabid fighting where at least some insightful discussion once prevailed: the more reasonable voices have shuffled away so the more rabid ones increasingly stand out (and boy do they love it), pushing more "more reasonable" voices into shuffling away leaving the polarised trolls on all sides to fight amongst themselves, and so the spiral descends.

Though I'm not an ad-clicker, gold buyer, or anything else such, so I very much doubt the powers that be over at reddit care that I am not engaged.

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by yitchelle »

frontiersummit wrote: post #104
the_duke wrote: post #72

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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.

So true. I'm with a Tier 1 for many years, and exotic cars are meh.

I would prefer to see items like advancement in tyre technology, or improvements in passenger safety, or reduction in energy consumption.

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by Akronymus »

dragonwriter wrote: post #96

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.

It seems more of a reddit but with the "new layout".

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by panxyh »

onion2k wrote: post #158
systemvoltage wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN design and its spartan interface is an overwhelmingly and the primary reason for its success (of course content, people, moderation, etc as well). If it were a phpBB board, or a discourse forum, it just wouldn't be the same. People are addicted to this site for its usability and simplicity. We've seen mass exodus from Digg and Reddit. The inflection point is always design, 2008 when they messed up the Digg UX with…

People are addicted to this site for its usability and simplicity. What this website looks like, how fast it loads, and how simple it is are not reasons to post here. People post to contribute their thoughts to the community. There are people here who we want to discuss things with. There are topics we're interested in that we have opinions about. We each want to be seen to be curious or knowledgeable about tech thin…

As for me, I'd stop lurking if the quality of content and community got bad, but probably much quicker so if the design turned into anything that's normal according to current trends.

What this website looks like, how fast it loads, and how simple it is are not reasons to post here.

With the emphasis on 'here', I think they are very important factors.

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