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Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by sokoloff »

nsizx wrote: post #31
stackbutterflow wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pagination. I'm sure most people don't know that you can click on "More replies" at the bottom of the page to read more comments. At least I didn't know at first and spent many years reading only the first page. Edit: It's actually "More" not "More replies".

I have never understood this. On websites, paginators are always at the end of pages. This one is there and it clearly says what it does. How can someone miss it?

The only thing I can think of is that pagination didn't originally exist, so users could have "learned" that if Ctrl-F didn't find a term, that it didn't exist in the comments (rather than didn't exist on this page of comments). That seems incredibly minor to me, though.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by krapp »

nsizx wrote: post #31
stackbutterflow wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pagination. I'm sure most people don't know that you can click on "More replies" at the bottom of the page to read more comments. At least I didn't know at first and spent many years reading only the first page. Edit: It's actually "More" not "More replies".

I have never understood this. On websites, paginators are always at the end of pages. This one is there and it clearly says what it does. How can someone miss it?

Other sites design their UI to stand out. Paginators may be bolded, or in a different font. And there will usually be other visual cues like a "Page x of y" somewhere. Hacker News' primary color scheme is minimalist grey on grey, specifically so the UI doesn't distract from the content.

As a result, people here develop feature blindness to the point that dang has to remind people that pagination even exists in most paginated threads.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by tssva »

aniforprez wrote: post #34
Fragoel2 wrote: post #14

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And many kinda work but are no longer mantained. Such is the fate of the iOS app previously mentioned and of Materialistic (Android)

I'm currently using Harmonic for Android after Materialistic irritated me too many times and while it's definitely got some issues, it works well enough for casual use

I would be completely happy with Harmonic except for 3 issues and I'm not sure if the one can be resolved because every Android HN API using app I have tried has the same issue.

The first issue is that long comments are difficult to type because the text box doesn't scroll the content. You end up typing blind. I'm already doing so now.

The 2nd is that you can you can copy part of a comment.

The 3rd and the one that I've experienced across clients is that dead comments are displayed. I would like to not see dead comments.akimg this a setting would be fine.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by krapp »

datenarsch wrote: post #18
krapp wrote: post #10

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>The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content. said pg, on a forum in which users constantly complain about missing features...

really? like what? I like hn precisely because of its minimalistic approach.

a lot of people complain about the font size, for instance.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by ReDeiPirati »

voidfunc wrote: post #32
giancarlostoro wrote: post #22

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If you email HN mods they are fairly reasonable is what I've heard.

The mods are awesome on here in general compared to many comparably sized communities. Dang deserves a lot of praise. Thank you Dang.

Strongly agree! A big shoutout to Scott also!

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by iamwil »

krapp wrote: post #45
datenarsch wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

really? like what? I like hn precisely because of its minimalistic approach.

a lot of people complain about the font size, for instance.

A strange thing to complain about, given browsers can override with user settings, if not user plugins.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by stackbutterflow »

nsizx wrote: post #31
stackbutterflow wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pagination. I'm sure most people don't know that you can click on "More replies" at the bottom of the page to read more comments. At least I didn't know at first and spent many years reading only the first page. Edit: It's actually "More" not "More replies".

I have never understood this. On websites, paginators are always at the end of pages. This one is there and it clearly says what it does. How can someone miss it?

Usually there are two buttons "Prev-Next" or something like "Page: 1,2,3,4..".

And I just checked, it's actually just "More". Maybe it's me but it's not immediately obvious that a link (not even a button) called "More" means that you can go to the next page. Add to that that HN is so lightweight I just assumed all messages were loaded at once.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by vultour »

capableweb wrote: post #15
travoc wrote: post #6

I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.

> that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing I've been using HN for 10+ years but I don't think I've ever found anything that was broken. What are you referring to exactly?

> for the iOS app
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