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Nice to see HN keeping up with the times. No redesigns in how long now? The fonts on this site are hilariously small. Padding is tiny. All the feel of the 1990s, today! Still good content, but come on -- do we not have a designer or artistic front-end who can help out?
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That may or may not be the case (I would dispute it) but the rules here expressly place political discussions as off-topic. From what I have seen, banning accounts seems to be a last resort for people who post almost exclusively political attacks; one has to be fairly intent on making oneself unpleasant to raise attention. I tend to agree with you that there can be value to political debate, but we must abide by the…
> but the rules here expressly place political discussions as off-topic This is absolutely untrue. How many times (and how many ways) does dang have to clarify this? Here's the guideline in question: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I'm prepared to argue that a comparison of the aging process of HN comments to tweets from a curr…
Hacker News comments age about as well as Donald Trump's tweets regarding the Obama administration.
Nice to see HN keeping up with the times. No redesigns in how long now? The fonts on this site are hilariously small. Padding is tiny. All the feel of the 1990s, today! Still good content, but come on -- do we not have a designer or artistic front-end who can help out?
This site design is what correct looks like.
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But politics are hardly relevant here. Somebody was pointing out interesting comments about Facebook and now I'm reading about Trump? It's low-quality material and has nothing to do with the discussion.
I can understand your reaction, but I will say that it provoked an interesting thought in me. I think that the matter of how well material ages is an interesting and difficult-to-predict metric, and that it is quite interesting that we are now measuring this metric using the unit of tweets from one head-of-state about a former one.
Nice to see HN keeping up with the times. No redesigns in how long now? The fonts on this site are hilariously small. Padding is tiny. All the feel of the 1990s, today! Still good content, but come on -- do we not have a designer or artistic front-end who can help out?
I think the anti-modern layout has become too much of a cultural shibboleth at this point, people cherish any feature they feel will drive away casual users and preserve the intellectual purity of the community. PG once mentioned that he wasn't concerned with such trivial things, which makes updating the design difficult without sparking a minor revolt among the userbase, especially if such an update causes the site…
One pattern I notice and dislike is the increase of average font size on the web (and in OSes), and the overall decrease in density of information. BBC 10 years ago vs now side by side shows the difference [1]. [1] http://instantshare.virtivia.com:27080/1k6i3cajkox2c.png
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I think the anti-modern layout has become too much of a cultural shibboleth at this point, people cherish any feature they feel will drive away casual users and preserve the intellectual purity of the community. PG once mentioned that he wasn't concerned with such trivial things, which makes updating the design difficult without sparking a minor revolt among the userbase, especially if such an update causes the site…
I'd like to see a site that has the best content in the industry actually look like a site that has the best content in the industry.
Front page story 10 years ago on the NY Times: In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich ( http://web.archive.org/web/20070805144155/http://www.nytimes... ) Sounds familiar...
I remember reading this exact story in college thinking, I'll happily move to a place where he had a million and don't feel rich... I'd still have a million. And more or less, it's worked out. You still live vastly better here with a million than many other parts of the world without a million.
- Some websites have changed for the better, for e.g. youtube.com
- Some have changed but maintained the same feel, for e.g. amazon.com and news.ycombinator.com
- Some have changed little, but I wish they had not changed, because they used to be better, for e.g. reddit.com and nytimes.com