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Re: Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client

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Post by replwoacause »

AnonHP wrote: post #17

I’m looking at this on a smartphone screen. The design and fonts are way nicer than HN (which is unimaginative and ugly in comparison). But the fonts on your site are also small and the link/buttons (for collapsing comments) are small and difficult to tap or click, just like on HN. It would be great if you could build on this, make it more accessible and get it to work for replying, voting, flagging, etc. I like how…

I understand this criticism but the counter argument I’ve seen many times before is that the brutal simplicity of the design is a feature many people here value. Especially where bandwidth is a concern. Not so much my opinion but I’ve seen it fervently defended.

Re: Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client

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Post by m3047 »

dimaor wrote: post #5

"according to the browser, which means there will probably be a warning message on most browsers" if my browser automatically assumes missing an r in a domain name is phishing (without the domain being blacklisted somewhere) I am moving browsers.

Yah. What about "ycombinatorr" or "ycombinatoor" or "yombinator" or...

This stuff is very common. The easiest way to find it is to locate infrastructure associated with one homology (nameservers, or IP addresses of nameservers or hosting) and then see what other domains are on those servers / hosting, assuming you have access to a crowdsourced Passive DNS database.

(Crowdsourced in this case is important, and I draw a distinction because most commercial PDNS DBs are crowdsourced, and I offer free software which synthesizes PTR records from locally observed PDNS because it serves a different purpose.)

Re: Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client

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Post by VanTodi »

replwoacause wrote: post #24
AnonHP wrote: post #17

I’m looking at this on a smartphone screen. The design and fonts are way nicer than HN (which is unimaginative and ugly in comparison). But the fonts on your site are also small and the link/buttons (for collapsing comments) are small and difficult to tap or click, just like on HN. It would be great if you could build on this, make it more accessible and get it to work for replying, voting, flagging, etc. I like how…

I understand this criticism but the counter argument I’ve seen many times before is that the brutal simplicity of the design is a feature many people here value. Especially where bandwidth is a concern. Not so much my opinion but I’ve seen it fervently defended.

Just uping the Font size for the interactive stuff shouldn't eat to much bandwidth. The rest can stay smol.
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