Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 1:43 AM UTC

jodah wrote: post #43

colinbartlett wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm quite certain the world's optometrists are paying HN to keep that font tiny so my eyes are strained every time I use the site on mobile. But seriously, I've heard in the past that they wish not to break the many apps that scrape HN, and therefore have hesitated to change the markup.

Not sure why the current markup couldn't support some responsive styling.

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Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by brudgers » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 1:51 AM UTC

captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

Maybe mobile correlates with lower quality comments, if so then improving HN is less obvious.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by napoleond » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 1:58 AM UTC

waterlesscloud wrote: post #49

Clicking the domain to see other submissions from that site is the best feature HN has added in years.

Agree! Thanks 'dang and gang.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by hamandcheese » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 1:59 AM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #42

captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

I'm quite certain the world's optometrists are paying HN to keep that font tiny so my eyes are strained every time I use the site on mobile. But seriously, I've heard in the past that they wish not to break the many apps that scrape HN, and therefore have hesitated to change the markup.

What ungodly scraper would be broken by a change in the stylesheet?

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by tranthuc » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:07 AM UTC

So greate!!!

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by chejazi » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:07 AM UTC

captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

The best solution I could find for reading was

http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/#/item/10223645

But there is no commenting, upvoting, etc (b/c of CSRF).

I tried rendering Hacker News in an iframe on a page with zoom set but they set X-FRAME-OPTIONS: DENY which destroys any hope of cross-origin css magic.

[edit] just tested zoom with a site that can be iframe-d and my css hopes were squashed - the size of the iframe is zoomed, but not its contents.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by e12e » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:15 AM UTC

captainbenises wrote: post #39

When are you going to fix the mobile css? Surely that'd take about 4 minutes.

In fact, in stead of the ugly hack with background-image gifs for the tiny vote-buttons -- why not just use a couple of link-elements with proper unicode ▲ ▲ ▼ ▼ glyphs? If for some bizzare reason one wants to keep adding this via js in an otherwise very html4-ish design, those could be added with some css :after-magic -- but I don't see why one would do that.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by kevan » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:18 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #51

colinbartlett wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm quite certain the world's optometrists are paying HN to keep that font tiny so my eyes are strained every time I use the site on mobile. But seriously, I've heard in the past that they wish not to break the many apps that scrape HN, and therefore have hesitated to change the markup.

The "break HTML scraping" reason makes zero sense when an HN API exists.

The API is available but not everyone has switched to it. There is a valid argument for backwards compatibility, like Linus refusing to break userspace even when it means rejecting some improvements. However, I'm in full agreement with you here. The benefit of usability improvements far outweighs the disadvantages of breaking screen scrapers, especially when so many of those scrapers exist solely to make HN more mobile friendly.

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by dang » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:21 AM UTC

some1else wrote: post #31

Nice to see some new features! I hope it's not rude to ask if there's a special reason the URLs in Ask HN submission text aren't hyperlinks?

That one's in the FAQ ("How do I make a link in a question").

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Re: Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

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Post by dang » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:27 AM UTC

hyperpallium wrote: post #60

Dup detection didn't seem to be working a couple days ago. Bug or just the changeover? Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10211499

It was a short-lived bug we introduced while working on this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216280

Hence the 'avoid stampedes' part I mentioned above.