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For future record: An article about a by-invitation closed-source blogging platform created by a self-proclaimed superhero is the top article on Hacker News on March 22, 2012 at 17:16 PST.
I think this system is well thought out. It has a beautiful, minimal design that actually let's you focus on the reading, once you're done playing with the kudos button. The only criticism I have is that it relies on sites like Hacker News and Reddit or email/twitter for discussion. Blog posts may be full of errors, but readers (and maybe authors) may never find out, due to the relatively inaccessible discussion/feed…
But really, the same thing could be accomplished by having the comments page be separate from the article page, yet still be hosted on the same blogging platform.
Overall, it feels like the designer is wagging his/her tail in my face.
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Pathetic? It perfectly accomplishes my goal: you'll remember it. (Edit: Sigh. Now I remember why I have a rule of not commenting on Hacker News anymore.)
If your other goals were to be arrogant and elitist, you've accomplished them as well.
As geeks, don't we recognize that The Deck ads are better than Google AdWords? Isn't the MacBook Air currently better than probably any other laptop? Wasn't Gmail the best thing since sliced bread for a long time?
I get it that it's part of the script in a socialist revolution, but in a start-up news site?
Curtis, can be as arrogant as he wants and still have a great product (or be right). Just like John Gruber is a jackass, but one who is usually right and (for the context of this site) has a successful business many us would love to have.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind helping out anybody here (or being helped), but at the end of the day, I want kick all your asses and win. And if I can hire the best of you, even better.
The animation of the left sidebar on each page is really annoying. Aside from that, it looks really clean!
Hrm, I thought it was actually kind of nice. Soft, non-obtrusive and gave a lovely "alive" feel an otherwise cold page. In fact, does anyone know of any tutorials on how to do this?
There is the temporary red overlay in the sidebar that is, as far as I can tell, new, and definitely a touch obtrusive (intentionally, no doubt); then, the relatively subtle circular pulse around the blog logo.
> It really is the essence of blogging[...] no social bullshit.
> And, of course, you should follow me on Twitter here.
It's very pretty. I wish I had the skill to come up with a UI as nice as that. I wonder what language/platform it's written in?
> I wonder what language/platform it's written in? I've recently wondered if we (devs) shouldn't adopt a standard like robots.txt/humans.txt, maybe dev.txt or something where we could put such information and opensource links (instead of polluting the UI sometimes with all the 'powered by' braggadacio). //edit: submitted for discussion http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3742784
Yesterday I made a quip about how 3 of the 5 members were on the frontpage of HN arguing, and how I didn't want an invite. Insert foot in mouth. I really like the idea of the two columns. I'd totally use this.
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> I wonder what language/platform it's written in? I've recently wondered if we (devs) shouldn't adopt a standard like robots.txt/humans.txt, maybe dev.txt or something where we could put such information and opensource links (instead of polluting the UI sometimes with all the 'powered by' braggadacio). //edit: submitted for discussion http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3742784
The last part of humans.txt is supposed to list the technology used.
It's very pretty. I wish I had the skill to come up with a UI as nice as that. I wonder what language/platform it's written in?