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Re: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

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Post by rangibaby »

liability wrote: post #35
dmix wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Modern front-end toolsets are finally starting to address this by using automated critical css, SSR + "hydrating" on load for interactive elements, webpack treeshaking + chunking of assets into tiny js/css files and only loading code based on what the page/routes asks for, PurgeCSS to get rid of unused css, cssnano/uglify/htmlmin/imagemin, etc. Webpack and these various popular tools has done a lot to make the web be…

> news sites It's really a sad state of affairs when an industry with such a strong historical connection with publishing is now reasonably cited as an industry worse at publishing than most others.

Newspapers have always been full of ads fwiw

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

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Post by blondin »

overcast wrote: post #8

I wish they would update the line-height to something more reasonable. ~1.5x font size would be go a long way in paragraph readability. Other than that, it's fast and stable. About all I require from a forum. Edit: All my lovely responders, I appreciate the feedback, but I don't want to install addons/mods/hacks to fix line-height.

my default zoom is 150%. this breaks a lot of websites. but maybe they don't care about accessibility anyway. like OP said, i have not had any issue with HN for years.

i recently started keeping dev tools's console open when i am using chrome. i have some JS to collapse comments here on HN.

i have seen some interesting things in the console, i just keep it opened now:

- some sites have st tons of JS errors and yet function as normal

- some companies put job ads in there for JS people (medium is doing it right now)

- some libraries show off their awesome ASCII logos in the console

- debug statements are left there unintentionally (i wonder if there is no tool that could strip these out)

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

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Post by ummonk »

exabrial wrote: post #17

I loathe the modern web. Speed is a secondary to "hey look what we're doing with our frameworks".

I love the power of modern web apps built using modern frameworks. I hate that ordinary content websites decide they need to be built using such frameworks.

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

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Post by wasdfff »

turrini wrote: post #24

There should be an extension that automatically redirects common websites to their lite versions. reddit.com -> old.reddit.com facebook.com -> mbasic.facebook.com cnn.com -> lite.cnn.com npr.org -> text.npr.org twitter.com -> twitter.com (with JS disabled) gmail.com -> gmail.com (HTML version)

There’s a couple for reddit at least. For some of the others you can get by with a bookmark, so typing facebook would take you to your mobile site bookmark.

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

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Post by Deimorz »

blondin wrote: post #42
overcast wrote: post #8

I wish they would update the line-height to something more reasonable. ~1.5x font size would be go a long way in paragraph readability. Other than that, it's fast and stable. About all I require from a forum. Edit: All my lovely responders, I appreciate the feedback, but I don't want to install addons/mods/hacks to fix line-height.

my default zoom is 150%. this breaks a lot of websites. but maybe they don't care about accessibility anyway. like OP said, i have not had any issue with HN for years. i recently started keeping dev tools's console open when i am using chrome. i have some JS to collapse comments here on HN. i have seen some interesting things in the console, i just keep it opened now: - some sites have s t tons of JS errors and yet f…

Does your JS do something differently than HN's native comment-collapsing? You can just click the "[-]" at the end of each comment's "header".

Re: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

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Post by lousken »

I had to use 64kbps internet on vacation for last couple of years, it's rough but it's possible. RSS everything and then use Inoreader mobile and read it there. Unfortunately more and more websites use javascript for content and that breaks the mobile version loader (it can parse text from mobile version and show it to you). But stupid webdevs make even even blogs and galleries via javascript so it often says that it cannot render mobile version. I hope google will eventaully return to non-js content and pagerank of those sites will fall down significantly.
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