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Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by Mz »

chegra84 wrote: post #18

Need more females. :)

I'm female and fairly openly so (and people still sometimes refer to me as "he/him" because they assume I am male, presumably just because it's HN and for no other apparent reason). A lot of the women here seem to intentionally downplay their gender a good deal. On at least one occasion a female member created a throwaway account to explain in part why she hides her gender while posting here.

So a) I wonder why you are saying that and b) I wonder how accurate perceptions are in that regard. (FWIW: I am assuming I did not make it onto this list because I don't have a twitter account and I have no idea if I have enough karma for it, which seems to be a factor.)

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by DanielRibeiro »

palish wrote: post #14

How do so many websites break the zoom feature on iPhone? So frustrating. Patio's massive face drowns out all the content. =)

It is a viewport meta tag. Sorry that the page doesn't work great on iphone. I am working on making the layout scale, and the page leaner for iphone. My nexus S views it just fine, but even it could use a better page.

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by icey »

heh... I was wondering why I started getting a bunch of beta signups + twitter followers today.

I like the highlight effect you have on mouseover, although it kind of feels like something should happen when you click on someone's profile. Perhaps redirect the user to the person's HN profile?

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by palish »

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #24
palish wrote: post #14

How do so many websites break the zoom feature on iPhone? So frustrating. Patio's massive face drowns out all the content. =)

It is a viewport meta tag. Sorry that the page doesn't work great on iphone. I am working on making the layout scale, and the page leaner for iphone. My nexus S views it just fine, but even it could use a better page.

No no.. We don't need a "lean" iPhone layout.

The iPhone is designed to view webpages. So make it a standard webpage. No special casing. =)

But... Really, just strip out the meta stuff for now. It's unusable on iPhone at the moment.

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by jamesbritt »

acak wrote: post #20
tokenadult wrote: post #3

Do the users get to submit updates to the descriptions? Do they get to delete their descriptions if they would rather not be listed? Is there are a particular reason why some users on the current Hacker News leaderboard http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders appear not to be on your interesting and informative site? After edit: I see at the bottom of the display it says "powered by HNSearch API," which makes me wonder w…

For me, leader board needs to be sorted by average karma per post, with a minimum karma required to be eligible to be on the list (like 10K points). The list would look very different with such sorting. Maybe pg or someone working on the site can change column titles to clickable headers that sort by that column. Not that it's particularly difficult to just copy paste as a table to Excel.

For me, leader board needs to be sorted by average karma per post, with a minimum karma required to be eligible to be on the list (like 10K points).

Agreed. I was surprised to find myself on that list; I've over 10K karma, but my average comment score is hardly impressive.

It's important to have interesting posts submitted but the comments are what really make HN.

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by pyre »

maxklein wrote: post #9

Shouldn't you filter the ones that don't have a real photo? Seeing the photo of the person makes them seem real and personable...those pure avatar ones to me feels like one is just looking at the HN username.

Looks like it's mostly just based on a Twitter account in the profile, so I would assume that those are Twitter proflie icons.
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