I visit HN a few dozen times a day. For it, it's like the stumbledupon with ability to comment. Best of both worlds.
Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
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#22Agreed, I wish more sites were like HN, fast, free and ad-free, text only and no bullshit algorithmic garbage shoved in my face. All it needs is dark mode and it's perfect.
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#23Bring back text only services! Everything should be accessible in some simple text UI that's simple and clean. I don't think that's possible by stripping back websites, maybe layers on RSS feeds, APIs with a new UX, etc, etc.
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#24Reddits "new UI" is so bad, surprised they're still trying to save it.
For me, the worst thing is how few comments show up by default in the comments sections. As a moderator of a large subreddit, the new UI is unusable because I can't quickly glance over a massive thread, I'd have to click through to a hundred sub-pages. If they ever remove old.reddit.com, I don't know what I'd do. It's a shame, because the redesign has some actually useful tools that I'd like to be using, but the basic experience is so poor. Every other aspect of the redesign could be fixed in the client with CSS rules, and the slowness and bloat could at least be tolerated.
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#25very true, i fully commit to that statement
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#26As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page. That said, it's relatively unobtrusive. And of course, the existence of HN is a large part of the marketing for YCombinator itself. Personally, I'll commend dang for doing a high-effort job at moderation, and tolerating all the dunking on Paul Graham t…
Ads that I won't see unless I actually have interest in them? That's not very web 5.0...
Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
#27As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page. That said, it's relatively unobtrusive. And of course, the existence of HN is a large part of the marketing for YCombinator itself. Personally, I'll commend dang for doing a high-effort job at moderation, and tolerating all the dunking on Paul Graham t…
But ... these job postings are difficult to discern from other posts. At least Google puts "Ad" in front of ads ...
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#28Reddits "new UI" is so bad, surprised they're still trying to save it.
Reddit without using https://apolloapp.io is impossible for me. I wonder when they start cutting off third party apps like Twitter.
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#29Mobile friendly CSS is long overdue :)
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#30Totally agree.
But I noticed I only accept this format from HN. I've seen some services tried to do the same or follow the same style and I wasn't as engaged with them.
I suppose for HN because that's how it started, and I am confident about the quality of links/articles/comments. That's how I picture the value.