This site (cool intent, good luck) highlights what HN does really well, because this site doesn't go deep on a refined textual experience. HN has a very simple user experience, deep content, and yet remarkably little abuse or junk content. There must be a great deal going on behind the scenes for this clean look and feel, free of abuse. How are bots suppressed? How are abusive users and content avoided? Insight into what that looks like would be most appreciated!
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
#92Good luck having automotive engineers read it!
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That is the problem though. As a consumer you’ll never get to know the intricacies of how things are made and why. The biggest problem at least here on HN is that hardly anyone knows how to articulate their (however valid) critiques, and therefore fallback to cliches and easy-to-quote “laws” that are quite irrelevant among design practitioners.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#94So r/cars ?
What’s different?
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#95This might seem facetious, but the cookie warning really threw me off. It doesn't really matter, I canbjust click past it, but instantly in my head: "This isn't HN for anything. Some marketing something or other I guess..." I think, for a dedicated/techy crowd, little things like a cookie warning mean a lot. To me it screams crap. I can't think of a single website I use enjoy using regularly that included a cookie wa…
Hi, I honestly hate the cookie banner myself - that's why I made it as much invisible as possible. But I'm using Google's Firebase for user authentication and therefore it uses cookies. I also store your choice of theme dark/light into a cookie so it's there for you next time. I believe that's why I have to have the banner there. Or am I wrong?
Firebase is easy to set up but pricey to scale and hard to migrate off of.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#96Gratuitous 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.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#97Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#98Not 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...
At a minimum, I’d expect a similar design aesthetic, rather than obtrusive JS, email harvesting, and a need for a tailored marketing cookie warning.
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#99Can I ride your coattails and introduce a "Hacker news" we made just for Cybersecurity?: https://cyber.report/
Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
That is such a great term. Instantly communicates what you’re talking about and how frustrating it is.
Yoink, I’ll definitely be borrowing that. Thanks!