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

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

zamadatix wrote: post #60
blondin wrote: post #42

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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…

What sites does zoom break? I've been on a 2x DPI screen for years and never noticed anything. The web is pretty good about this, even "pixels" are actually just length units not physical pixels.

Very few work correctly with zoom. One of them is http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

And text has nothing to do with pixels, it's not raster.

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

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Post by soulchild37 »

a_imho wrote: post #317

Hearing the internet is not feasible without ads can't help but wonder what is the economics of running HN?

The HN jobs section attracts candidates (visitors of HN mostly are devs) for startup funded by Y combinator, I guess this is a win-win

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

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Post by viach »

Agree with everything, but there is a small UI thing that could be improved - it is very easy to occasionally press "flag" instead of "hide" on mobile.

This improvement could be very beneficial for users with fat fingers. Well, HN is inclusive platform, right?

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

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Post by AlexDragusin »

dredmorbius wrote: post #252
AlexDragusin wrote: post #221

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Using that takes me to "This page will only work with JavaScript enabled" https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad So not nice!

True, though if you enable JS, you'll have a good HN search tool. I'm a fan of basic functionality w/o JS in most cases myself. I make exceptions for useful and non-annoying sites. Algolia meets both criteria.

Gave it a spin, I see what you mean, that's pretty good actually, thanks.

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

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Post by longtom »

waterhouse wrote: post #155
NullPrefix wrote: post #55

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>gmail.com -> gmail.com (HTML version) gmail used to have an option to set HTML as default, but it seems like it's gone. Only way to get HTML is to click on a link that's available during loading, nothing in the settings to make it permanent.

Just use this as your bookmark: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

For anyone interested, I just put together a userscript with some rudimentary key assignments for the Basic HTML version of Gmail:

https://pastebin.com/raw/kHyZXcTY

    gi    Go to inbox
    gk    Go to first label inbox
    t     Toggle checkbox of current mail
    mr    Mark checked mails as read
    mu    Mark checked mails as unread
    k     Navigate up in mail list (shift twice as fast)
    j     Navigate down in mail list
    h     Go to older mail(s)
    l     Go to newer mail(s)
    Enter Open mail
    r     Reload
    b     Back
    n     New mail

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

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Post by Vinnl »

a_f wrote: post #333
Vinnl wrote: post #304

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I had the same issue on mobile. Annoyed me so much, I made a browser extension that increases the padding around those and the collapse buttons. Not useful for you, but for anyone using Firefox for Android, see here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sihn/ (It could use some tweaks to keep everything aligned, but the small usability tweak was most important to me.)

Thank you for this! Just installed and a quick smoke test provided a much nicer experience for me. :)

Good to hear :) I've not spent too much effort on it (nor am I planning to), but feel free to report an Issue if you have suggestions for small improvements.

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

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Post by cameronbrown »

crusader1099 wrote: post #276
cameronbrown wrote: post #177

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Other than poor performance, the thing I'm most upset about is how each subreddit has lost its personality, and the fact they've closed the source. Being open is what made Reddit special, considering who founded it, it should never have gone closed source.

> Other than poor performance, the thing I'm most upset about is how each subreddit has lost its personality What makes you say this?

They axed custom subreddit CSS stylesheets. It was very much like unstyled Reddit was a base to build upon.

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

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Post by harel »

krapp wrote: post #339
harel wrote: post #332

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From my experience when something like that happens, i.e., HackerNews sends back 10K after an upvote, there is a reason for that. We might not know the reason, but the developer who did that had one and at the time it was probably a good and valid reason (and might still be).

>We might not know the reason, but the developer who did that had one and at the time it was probably a good and valid reason (and might still be). People seem to assume every aspect of this forum has some brilliant, purposefully elegant rationale behind it, but the truth is PG designed the language (and the forum) to be experimented with and iterated upon, and likely didn't intend the forum to be considered "finishe…

Very possible. Also possible there was a valid reason at the time, and even though it's no longer valid nobody bothered to look into it. All I'm saying is that "created" things exist/happen for a reason, which is not always obvious to a 3rd party. I've had this happen with my own code. I find some old code that looks really dumb, no idea why I wrote it like that. I then spend time to refactor it properly, only to hit some obscure edge case which ultimately leads me back to the 'dumb code'

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

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Post by swift532 »

ttctciyf wrote: post #311
dredmorbius wrote: post #254

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I navigate directly to old Reddit. However if links within Reddit (in comments, sidebars, wikis) specify the full domain, I end up at new reddit. I basically never ever want to be there. I've specifically not enabled JS for 'www.reddit.com' so that the site won't load, but I still have to fix URLs manually when directed there. What I'd like is for any 'www.reddit.com' I encounter on the site to be rewritten to 'old.r…

I log in to www.reddit.com, and have the "use new reddit" box unchecked. Anytime I click a link to reddit (including np.reddit links) it honours my preference of avoiding new reddit (checked just now by a quick reddit search on site:reddit.com) So maybe this is a misfeature on old.reddit.com, or you don't have the box unchecked?

I think they meant if someone posts a link that's not an np.reddit link, but a full link like `https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/`
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