Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites • Hacker News Board

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by superkuh » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:34 PM UTC

mey wrote: post #165

paulddraper wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You get less than a quarter the speed of dialup?

Some potential reasons - Remote backhaul / Satellite / Offshore - Subsidized/cheap wireless plan - Going over data cap, some carriers fall into a "safety" mode instead of charging you extra. I pay for 8gb/mo and would get throttled to similar speeds - Preference

Plus all wireless transmissions of internet stuff that use TCP will experience random round trip time (rtt) leading to problematic and ever increasing TCP re-transmit delay after back-off.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:35 PM UTC

baxtr wrote: post #104

hypertexthero wrote: post #55

Good list, though here comes my Hacker News-style pesky comment: Justified text on a screen is a feature that makes my eyes and brain hurt. Ragged text is much easier to read. Uneven and beautiful, like a plant whose details you rest your eyes upon as you observe, rather than a uniform concrete structure where vision is lost. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

Meta comment: that’s the third comment I see this week with “quasi” emojis. Is this becoming a trend? o_o

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:35 PM UTC

hypertexthero wrote: post #55

Good list, though here comes my Hacker News-style pesky comment: Justified text on a screen is a feature that makes my eyes and brain hurt. Ragged text is much easier to read. Uneven and beautiful, like a plant whose details you rest your eyes upon as you observe, rather than a uniform concrete structure where vision is lost. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:36 PM UTC

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #152

I hate all of these features except the index. I get about 12kbps on mobile. There are very few sites I can view. Hackers news is one of them. The more I use the modern internet the more I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I need th website equivalent of a sensorial faraday cage.

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:36 PM UTC

markx2 wrote: post #59

I value links. WordPress used to have a Links section in the sidebar by default. It was later criticised for the default links being to WP founders/devs. But it was there, and you could change it. Links are the web for me. "If you like my site maybe you will like what I like". Go look at https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ - links! Go look at other sites and if they are WP chances are no link list. Am I blaming WP? Y…

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:36 PM UTC

hamasho wrote: post #54

It's not a feature, but I like websites without sticky headers or footers. I hate seeing it on mobile, but I don't like it even on desktop. The worst is the sticky side button overlapping the main content. A few years ago, I sometimes saw "share on social media" buttons obscuring the article, and that was so annoying.

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:37 PM UTC

carimura wrote: post #133

I came to the comments expecting more pushback but I'm surprised. What happened to the simplicity of reading articles without status indicators, link popups, notes, conversations, ...? OK, table of contents, you're cool.

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by freedomben » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:40 PM UTC

arrowsmith wrote: post #164

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #152

I hate all of these features except the index. I get about 12kbps on mobile. There are very few sites I can view. Hackers news is one of them. The more I use the modern internet the more I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I need th website equivalent of a sensorial faraday cage.

Why is your mobile speed so slow? Where do you live?

This is typically my experience when driving on interstates in the western US. The speed varies enormously, but glacial speeds are very common. HN works well, most sites do not.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by jauntywundrkind » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:41 PM UTC

xnorswap wrote: post #50

squidbeak wrote: post #29

RSS should be a core rather than a 'micro' feature.

I might cop a lot of hate for saying this, but it's been 10 years, it's time to stop mourning RSS and move on. I loved RSS, I sorely miss the protocol based internet rather than the web based internet we have now. I miss when my emails didn't have adverts pretending to be emails at the top of my inbox. Advertising was a lot less prevalent when applications had protocols and you could simply move to a different client…

Time to move on to what? Time to move back to everything being a chaotic jungle of different designs & experiences? I think not. Even if sites themselves don't support rss, there's many tools out there to help res-ify various sources. If there was a way to move on maybe we might eventually drop rss/atom, but it seems highly highly unlikely we'll move back from rss.

I love the web & it's great solid platform. But rss holds a special place in my heart too. Calling rss "not the reality of the modern web", saying that we should just except captive experiences by the valent forces doesn't seem very web-like to me, doesn't bespeaks the user-agency that so critically distinguishes the web from everything else. The internet is for end users, rfc8890, and rss is a strong manifestation of that value.

If we do want to move on we have to make that new place.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by emilamlom » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

markx2 wrote: post #59

I value links. WordPress used to have a Links section in the sidebar by default. It was later criticised for the default links being to WP founders/devs. But it was there, and you could change it. Links are the web for me. "If you like my site maybe you will like what I like". Go look at https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ - links! Go look at other sites and if they are WP chances are no link list. Am I blaming WP? Y…

Back in the day (late 90's to early 2000's), sites would have something called a webring where sites would link to similar sites in a circular fashion. It was a good way to find similar sites and kinda a fun adventure.