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#192For a moment I thought this was going to be a version of the site with megabytes of javascript, 50+ third-party tracking/ad network/analytics scripts, facebook/twitter/reddit "share" links, a cookie consent dialog allowing me to accept all or "manage my preferences", autoplaying videos about an unrelated story on each page, a sidebar with thumbnails + clickbait headlines that distracts from the main content, and a po…
"the" hacker news?
For anyone who doesn't get the reference: https://thehackernews.com/
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If I might suggest a major: (3) breaks SEO for potentially a very long time causing HN to fall out of search results to common queries on the major search engines. (I'm aware of site move tools and 301's, but we almost always see some decline on a domain switchover that takes time to recover)
Now that you mention it, I hardly ever see HN results on Google. Not that I would necessarily expect to — or maybe I’ve just learned to not expect them to. But there is quality content here that doesn’t seem to show up in search the way Reddit and Stackoverflow content often show up in search. Have dang/others looked into SEO? Or maybe it’s explicitly not a priority?
I've actually been surprised how quickly HN is indexed. When I see comments about a seemingly niche thing, I often google for more details - and often enough the comment that made me google it is among the top results.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I might suggest a major: (3) breaks SEO for potentially a very long time causing HN to fall out of search results to common queries on the major search engines. (I'm aware of site move tools and 301's, but we almost always see some decline on a domain switchover that takes time to recover)
Now that you mention it, I hardly ever see HN results on Google. Not that I would necessarily expect to — or maybe I’ve just learned to not expect them to. But there is quality content here that doesn’t seem to show up in search the way Reddit and Stackoverflow content often show up in search. Have dang/others looked into SEO? Or maybe it’s explicitly not a priority?
Odd. I get HN results. You're right that it's not as frequent as SO or Reddit, but it seems to surpass the "hardly ever" threshold.
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#195hckrnews.com is the only way I view the site. Just needs dark mode (I guess I can just use darkreader, but built in would be cool)
We’ve requested native dark mode so many times in the past and ‘dang’ has been sympathetic about it, but we must rely on addons and other solutions, when in fact it’s a very simple addition. Let’s hope we’ll have it soon ;-)
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#196It is already a lot more like Reddit than it used to be just a few years ago. For example, the comments on some submissions are full of stupid jokes now, gradually drowning out actually interesting discussion. IMO HN was better when it was dry, boring, and insightful. It is less and less of that every year. Example from this very submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962122 I'm sure there are more people…
> I'm sure there are more people who want to see these content-free comments than not
Two rules of thumb about how this stuff works:
* Never underestimate the number of children on the internet
* Never underestimate the number of people intoxicated/high on the internet
Using those as a guide, lots of popularity metrics make sense.
It's mostly like real life, if your community can avoid attracting children or people actively doing drugs, it'll mostly be fine.
Reddit decided at its redesign point to pull hard and accelerate to both these groups as fast as possible.
Slashdot is kind of interesting. After floundering for maybe 2 decades it's starting to get a new focus as effectively legitimate tech journalism.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I might suggest a major: (3) breaks SEO for potentially a very long time causing HN to fall out of search results to common queries on the major search engines. (I'm aware of site move tools and 301's, but we almost always see some decline on a domain switchover that takes time to recover)
Now that you mention it, I hardly ever see HN results on Google. Not that I would necessarily expect to — or maybe I’ve just learned to not expect them to. But there is quality content here that doesn’t seem to show up in search the way Reddit and Stackoverflow content often show up in search. Have dang/others looked into SEO? Or maybe it’s explicitly not a priority?
> I hardly ever see HN results on Google.
Got to DuckDuck #1 with this string: "propulsive thrombosis survivable flotation counterexample" (Interesting picture collection)
Kept making NASA #1 until I threw thrombosis in. Got slow though :)
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#198Ha - that'll make it easier to refer folks to the website. I hope to never need to utter - "Oh you should checkout Hacker News, go to news dot why combinator dot com, I think it will be right up your alley."
Normal people don't type urls. They type "hacker news" into google and click on the first result.
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#199At first, and not very bright, I thought this would be a link to an hours earlier version of itself, which would be repeated every hour until it want on infinitely, looping and looping
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HN is divided on topics where society at large is divided, just like any large-enough population sample. There's no "their" there, and defining the whole by the part you most dislike is a cognitive bias ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ) - a common one. The people you disagree with are complaining just as much about how your side dominates. If there's a difference with HN, it's that t…
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…
I think it's really hard to say where the weight lies politically here. Comment favouring one view inevitably prompts responses favouring the converse view, so they catalyse each other.
There are no shortages of anticapitalist comments here, but there's no way to put numbers to that. A handful of dedicated proponents of a view can generate a lot of comments.