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

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Post by LordDragonfang »

mcchew wrote: post #80

I work at an automotive-related tech firm so in principle this looks great and useful. I do think the design could be simpler, more like old reddit or HN, to maximize the amount of information presented to the user. There also appears to be a moderation problem, especially on the current top post, so I can't really share it with colleagues yet ;)

For those viewing this in the future after this has (hopefully) been fixed, it's one user spamming comments with exactly the slur you'd expect a dozen times.

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

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Post by p1necone »

Judgmentality wrote: post #70
p1necone wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why being a designer is necessary to criticize UX, unless it's UX intended for designers. You don't only read restaurant reviews from restaurant owners, or movie reviews from filmmakers, or car reviews from automotive engineers do you?

For the same reasons being a coder isn't necessary to criticize code. Anybody can do it, but chances are your opinions are a lot less informed than you realize.

This isn't a great comparison. The only people that need to read (and know how to read) code are coders. A non-coder can't criticize code.

This is not the same for UX (or restaurants, films or cars from my other example) as these are things that everyone interacts with and understands to some extent despite not doing so in a professional capacity.

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

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Post by chaosbutters314 »

great idea, remove the thumbnails, they serve no purpose. If you want a thumbnail, make it topic related. So like a politics/legislation thumbnail, new product thumbnail, etc that way it is easy to determine what the story relates too. I guess it'd be equivalent to flair on reddit

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

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Post by p1necone »

trizoza wrote: post #28
grawprog wrote: post #23

Not 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.

I think making the images square (or squircles) instead of round, and a little bit smaller would allow you to reclaim quite a lot of whitespace.

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

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Post by cmeacham98 »

shoto_io wrote: post #58
grawprog wrote: post #23

Not 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…

Maybe I am getting old, but if I see "I made HN for X" I am expecting to see the exact design of HN...

I consider myself fairly young (only a few years out of college), and I'd definitely expect the same or very similar design.

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

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Post by booleandilemma »

Judgmentality wrote: post #70
p1necone wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why being a designer is necessary to criticize UX, unless it's UX intended for designers. You don't only read restaurant reviews from restaurant owners, or movie reviews from filmmakers, or car reviews from automotive engineers do you?

For the same reasons being a coder isn't necessary to criticize code. Anybody can do it, but chances are your opinions are a lot less informed than you realize.

I think even a lowly non-designer is capable of saying whether a website is trash or not, and I don’t think the same is true for code at all.

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

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Post by aero- »

grawprog wrote: post #23

Not 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…

dude you would love tiktok. you get one video per page.

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

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Post by iab »

travoc wrote: post #71
shoto_io wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I am getting old, but if I see "I made HN for X" I am expecting to see the exact design of HN...

Does the back button in the iOS app eventually float off the screen and become unusable? If so, I’m in.

Stochastic UI/UX is all the rage nowadays
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