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A love that HN doesn’t have pics and that they strive for short meaningful titles, so I’ll stay here :)
Half of the frontpage is always made of titles that are either referencing ultra-niche products, clickbaity, misrepresent the content of the article, try to be smart, etc.
If anything, HackerNews would be BETTER if it did not have post titles but only excerpts.
I suspect many folks here enjoy the minimalist Hacker News UI but I, for one, really enjoy what you've put together. It somehow makes me more interested in checking out stories/posts I might have otherwise skipped on the normal UI. I'll give this a spin day-to-day. What are your plans for this project?
As someone from the "minimalist prefered" guys, im just curious - what articles sparked your interested through this layout and why would you have skipped them on the normal layout? (inb4 i think the herald is a very well done thing i just cant think of a reason why an article there is more interresting than on the normal layout)
The saying, “If it ain't broke, don’t fix it,” comes to mind. I’m all for progress, but Hacker News's simplicity and density are its major features.
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As someone from the "minimalist prefered" guys, im just curious - what articles sparked your interested through this layout and why would you have skipped them on the normal layout? (inb4 i think the herald is a very well done thing i just cant think of a reason why an article there is more interresting than on the normal layout)
From today: "Portland Airport Grows With Expansive Mass Timber Roof Canopy" is a good example. I wouldn't have opened this story on Hacker News, but the image displayed on Hacker Herald had me open it.
This isn't ideal from a privacy PoV, because you're basically announcing your presence to tens of different orgs even if you don't click on anything.
And, some hosts might not appreciate their images being hotlinked - the big sites probably don't care or even notice, but someone's personal blog without a media CDN might end up getting hammered with traffic.
Could you crowd-source categories/tags for the stories and then try and implement an opt-in / opt-out function that lets us exclude certain categories. I'm not even sure if it's possible but you're some of the way there.