Does anyone here remember what this URL used to serve in the 90s and 2000s?
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125090010/http://hackernews....
Was one of my favorites, classic.
Hackernews.com
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#182What’s the justification for spending money on this? So many more useful things to do than buy an expensive domain to redirect it here.
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#183What’s the justification for spending money on this? So many more useful things to do than buy an expensive domain to redirect it here.
I think they have a lot of money.
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#184What’s the justification for spending money on this? So many more useful things to do than buy an expensive domain to redirect it here.
SEO matters a lot. And first contact conversion matters a lot. There's a reason landing pages market is quite popular.
You can also read about people's preference for clean/relevant domains an example about hey.com
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes I think I am the only person left in the world who still uses the "Bookmarks" feature of my web browser.
I think I stopped using them when the browsers inexplicably lost their menus. I don't really understand why the menus went away from the top of web browser, since desktop screen space hasn't been an issue since the late '90s, even on laptops.
Same reason as many other design problems:
- prioritizing graphical design over usability
- and prioritizing copying Chrome and Mac OS over following "local" OS guidelines
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
At some point in time I drilled this sequence into my fingers: ctrl-t, ne, ctrl-w i.e. new tab, start typing news.ycombinator.com, immediately interrupt myself and close the tab. These days I have hn mapped to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.
And yet both if you are here. starts closing his 42 open HN tabs
yep, but less during work hours I hope.
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#187Took you decades before do this?
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#188What’s the justification for spending money on this? So many more useful things to do than buy an expensive domain to redirect it here.
SEO matters a lot. And first contact conversion matters a lot. There's a reason landing pages market is quite popular. You can also read about people's preference for clean/relevant domains an example about hey.com
This site already ranked #1 in Google for “Hacker News”.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the response, and yes I was being snarky. That said, I don’t think this is simply a matter of HN being divided the same way society is divided. HN has a bias in favor of capital, which I think is pretty observable in a typical thread on e.g startups, and if you don’t share my observation you can agree this is at least likely given the high rate of tech workers and would be investors on this site. I think…
All cultures that promote discussion tend towards biases, status quos, and shutting down revolutionaries. That's part for the course of coexisting as human beings. Each society forgives some things and prohibits others. Each society has some topics which are difficult to discuss rationally within that society, requiring much more heavy-handed moderation than other topics. HN's specific set of such topics can be parti…
I appreciate this comment, sorry I don’t have time to write a more complete reply yet.