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Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by dbtc »

amelius wrote: post #70
voodooEntity wrote: post #14

While i have to admit, from all the alternative frontends i have seen over the years (and there have been alot) this is by far the best. Tho as many others mention, one of the great things on hackernews is the minimalism / simplicity - and i have to admit its one of the reasons why i always like to go on hackersnews. Just a simple textlist, easy to read, no visual clutter. Tho for people that like a more colorfull/st…

It is ironic that the people responsible for most of the UX cruft on the internet (i.e., us programmers) prefer such minimalism in their interfaces.

The dealer knows best what the drug will do.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by Retr0id »

ipaddr wrote: post #72
Retr0id wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't.

Until you get a dmca notice. Taking other people's photos without permission violates copyright.

No, using them without permission (potentially) violates copyright. Copyright does not concern itself with the specifics of the mechanism by which the rights-holder's content enters your user's web browser, so long as you're not circumventing DRM.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by thorncorona »

amelius wrote: post #70
voodooEntity wrote: post #14

While i have to admit, from all the alternative frontends i have seen over the years (and there have been alot) this is by far the best. Tho as many others mention, one of the great things on hackernews is the minimalism / simplicity - and i have to admit its one of the reasons why i always like to go on hackersnews. Just a simple textlist, easy to read, no visual clutter. Tho for people that like a more colorfull/st…

It is ironic that the people responsible for most of the UX cruft on the internet (i.e., us programmers) prefer such minimalism in their interfaces.

i think most designers think hn is ugly lol

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by prophesi »

I'm not sure how the pics/subtitled are crowdsourced, but I'm wondering if it'd fare just as well simply using the OGP protocol? ie, the preview cards we see in most apps/platforms where links are posted. And if they don't have the OGP[0] tags, it could fallback to the crowdsourced solution. Or even let users choose which should be their default, and the ability to swap between the two?

[0] https://ogp.me/

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

#77

Post by dang »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #66
dang wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There shouldn't be titles that are either clickbaity or misrepresent the article. The site guidelines call for rewriting those (" Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. ") and we're pretty active in doing so.

But I think this is not enough. Not misrepresenting is not enough, they should instead represent the content of the article. If I take a random one on the front page right now, "The square roots of all evil", it doesn't describe at all its content. Yet if I flagged it, I know it wouldn't be renamed. Another example is an earlier post that got a lot of traction: "The correct amount of ads is zero". This is borderline…

Yes, I hear you—you want titles to be more than neither-linkbait-nor-misleading, and you're right that we mostly don't go further than that on HN.

I also agree that the two titles you quoted are borderline baity and both of them are the sort that we could well do an edit on, though we didn't in those cases.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by written-beyond »

voodooEntity wrote: post #14

While i have to admit, from all the alternative frontends i have seen over the years (and there have been alot) this is by far the best. Tho as many others mention, one of the great things on hackernews is the minimalism / simplicity - and i have to admit its one of the reasons why i always like to go on hackersnews. Just a simple textlist, easy to read, no visual clutter. Tho for people that like a more colorfull/st…

I like the minimal interface, gives an old.reddit.com vibe. HN is horrible to use on mobile though. Everything is tiny, difficult to tap I miss tap every 3 taps

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by IOT_Apprentice »

written-beyond wrote: post #78
voodooEntity wrote: post #14

While i have to admit, from all the alternative frontends i have seen over the years (and there have been alot) this is by far the best. Tho as many others mention, one of the great things on hackernews is the minimalism / simplicity - and i have to admit its one of the reasons why i always like to go on hackersnews. Just a simple textlist, easy to read, no visual clutter. Tho for people that like a more colorfull/st…

I like the minimal interface, gives an old.reddit.com vibe. HN is horrible to use on mobile though. Everything is tiny, difficult to tap I miss tap every 3 taps

Try using octal as a hacker news client. I recommend it
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