an RSS feed would be super great.
Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
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Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#32Great website, you seemed to have worked hard on it.
Some feedback if you don't mind it.
1. How about moving the domain of the article posted beside the post title (like HN)? This maintains the flow of reading. I read the post title and then I can see the source of the article on it's right.
2. You seem to have a separate URL for each post ( EG: https://autonews.io/article/99522953-788c-446f-a706-cd26e2c3...) but I couldn't find any way of accessing an individual post's URL from the front page. Had to dig into the HTML. Maybe clicking on the timestamp copies the post link or takes you to the individual post's URL?
3. Dark mode toggle is very confusing (https://i.imgur.com/V0MrNlA.png). Don't switch the icon after each toggle. Put an icon (indicating dark or light mode) outside the toggle and then let users change based on that (https://i.imgur.com/1wyE6si.png) .
4. Don't automatically open links in a new tab. HN doesn't do that. Let users ctrl+click if they want to open it in new tab if they want to.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#33Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have to scroll a whole page just to see as many stories as I can at a glance on hn. With one quick scroll, i can see an entire hn page, to get to the bottom of autonews I had to scroll 5 times and scroll past an annoying subscribe bar placed in the middle. I don't…
Thanks, I was actually exactly thinking the same when I was comparing autonews.io vs HN. But I would have to compromise the images if I wanted to make it more concise, and I've decided not to.
You can keep the images, but just reduce all the white space. Also, I'd get rid of the cookie banner, as I didn't see cookies?
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#34One of the things HN gets right is in my opinion the classic basic design. I wish you would have recreated that.
What is the classic design of automotive? That’s the question to ask IMO.
Paul Graham wrote about automobile design in an essay.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#35Filing a bug report:
1. Unauthenticated: try to add comment.
2. Error that you need an account to comment.
3. Create account
4. Attempt to submit the comment typed in one.
Expected: Comment submitted successfully.
Actual: Something went wrong.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think I like the autosubmissions, sometimes it's silly that a story HN will definitely discuss has to be found and submitted by someone. There are certain sites one could arguably auto-submit to HN, though HN is popular enough to just not need it.
Do make it clear which are auto-submitted though.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#37Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have to scroll a whole page just to see as many stories as I can at a glance on hn. With one quick scroll, i can see an entire hn page, to get to the bottom of autonews I had to scroll 5 times and scroll past an annoying subscribe bar placed in the middle. I don't…
Agreed - don't get fancy - you're on a good idea with the auto focus - just clone the HN look and feel, choose a different color palette. I wonder if part of the appeal of HN is it has no images?
You don't even have to write your own software, you can just run HN ("news") directly for your niche! http://arclanguage.org/install
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#38Hi 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…
A couple of former TTAC editors are active users here on HN. Will be interesting to see their feedback.
That would be absolutely amazing.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#39Tech and related content is generally global. Auto news on the other hand is usually localized, and locally relevant.
Maybe something automobile in the VR could be new.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#40Filing a bug report: 1. Unauthenticated: try to add comment. 2. Error that you need an account to comment. 3. Create account 4. Attempt to submit the comment typed in one. Expected: Comment submitted successfully. Actual: Something went wrong.
Thanks, will be addressed!