What I miss in the HN UI is a way to check what are the new comments when I revisit a discussion thread.
Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI?
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#22HN layout is great. Much easier to navigate than Reddit for example. I wouldn’t change a thing.
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#23What I miss in the HN UI is a way to check what are the new comments when I revisit a discussion thread.
another great example of how it can be "better"..
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#24I like the "brutalism". The only thing i would add is a night mode.
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#25I like the "brutalism". The only thing i would add is a night mode.
+1 for a dark mode!
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#26Ugly UI doesn't mean a bad UX. I always point people towards craigslist and ebay. I can get my news and put in my .02, when compelled to do so. Also, the community is authoritative and inviting. What could you want from a new design that would add value to the community?
I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous.
- There is no search function anywhere
- Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15
- To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have to go through the FAQs?!
- Update a comment and you get redirected to the same form with no message.
I really don't get why a site who's target audiance is web developers and hackers has such terrible functionality on their site. Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?
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#27Ugly UI doesn't mean a bad UX. I always point people towards craigslist and ebay. I can get my news and put in my .02, when compelled to do so. Also, the community is authoritative and inviting. What could you want from a new design that would add value to the community?
I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous. - There is no search function anywhere - Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15 - To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have…
> Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?
It would certainly raise the bar for entry if HN just offered an undocumented API and required users to write their own clients for it.
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#28Ugly UI doesn't mean a bad UX. I always point people towards craigslist and ebay. I can get my news and put in my .02, when compelled to do so. Also, the community is authoritative and inviting. What could you want from a new design that would add value to the community?
I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous. - There is no search function anywhere - Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15 - To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have…
> - There is no search function anywhere
The bottom.of most pages has a search box.
Most people here will be able.to use DDG or Bing or Google to search the site.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous. - There is no search function anywhere - Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15 - To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have…
> Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface? It would certainly raise the bar for entry if HN just offered an undocumented API and required users to write their own clients for it.
True, but it would also perpetuate the stereotype of developers and techies as being a closed community of pretentious nerds.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous. - There is no search function anywhere - Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15 - To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have…
> - There is no search function anywhere The bottom.of most pages has a search box. Most people here will be able.to use DDG or Bing or Google to search the site.
I stand corrected.