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Small thing: I bought a slate T, and the confirmation page featured a large image of a black T, I had to go and double check the right one had been ordered.
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I mean no offense, and I realize that this is your site; but I really think jug6ernaut's comment added far more value than your response. I don't think jug6ernaut missed the point whatsoever, and I wouldn't characterize him as nit-picking either: The question of who is expected to understand the t-shirt and what its point is (as compared to an unbranded t-shirt) are perfectly reasonable. Personally I see nothing wron…
I feel like I'm trapped in an HN parody. It's precisely because I want HN to be a site where people engage in meaningful discussion that I try to discourage people from upvoting the first dismissive comment they come across. Even discourage is probably too strong a word though. I feel like someone standing in the surf, trying to hold back a breaking wave with his hand. (I didn't answer his question because other user…
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With sufficient karma (trying to remember: was it 300? 400?), you can set the color you prefer.
Interesting, I did not know that. Anybody know why the bar is defaulted to that shade of orange (#FF6600) in the first place?
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I feel like I'm trapped in an HN parody. Congratulations! We have a winner. You have just won first place in the crowd sourced competition for the front of V2.0 of the official Hacker News Tshirt. Honorable mention: Wear something people want. Correlation != clothesation. Fuck. That. Shirt. Take off this shirt and get back to work. Shirt early. Shirt often. Made from 100% down (votes). I clicked "threads" and got thi…
Don't forget the runner-up, Unknown or expired link.
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Right. Hm. I wonder why it does that.
Save space. If it had to have a "reply" button after every reply in a large comment block it would not be able to fit very many comments on the page. They really should scrap the reply link entirely and move it next to the "flag" button e.g. | reply
I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.
Hell, from 20 yards you couldn't even see the graphic. When I saw the title, I thought, "Cool, a t-shirt with a large Y in a box on it." If you know the logo, you know. If not, it's easy to explain.
I'm still trying to figure out how I would explain this to someone.
I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.
I kind of wish this were the top comment. It would be humorously appropriate if the top comment on the thread about the official HN t-shirt were the traditional nitpicking/point-missing type that is so commonly the top comment when people launch new technology here.
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Just click "link" above the post and the reply box appears.
Right. Hm. I wonder why it does that.
This thread is an example of why the delay is implemented, and this comment is an example of low value comments.
I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.
I really like this design. It's a minimal design that is interesting for people who don't know the site, and a nice in-joke for people who do know the site. A lot better than most of the standard 'nerdy' shirts, like this one: http://cdn4.desizntech.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/55994...
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Have you considered hiring someone full time just to improve Hacker News? You have built an incredibly valuable forum, and there is no other place on the internet like it. But the quality of the comments is definitely degrading over time. I worry that if serious time is not dedicated to fixing the problem Hacker News will go the way of usenet.
How do you pay someone to improve the quality of discussion? There is an open problem for lots of services, and yet everyone on those services is still complaining about declining quality. HN is undergoing the transition that every community undergoes, from ultra-exclusive and underground to more populist. There's always gnashing of teeth from the entrenched userbase as a site becomes popular. That said, right now HN…
Well yeah, and in my IMHO the teeth gnashers are right. Every community that undergoes this transition turns into a wasteland, at least by my elitist tastes. I'd hate to see Hacker News go the same way.
A full-time programmer could try to design new features to stave off the decline. For instance, maybe up-voting power could be adjusted based on karma, so that the mob has less power to up-vote the nasty comments to the top of every thread. Maybe a better flagging system could be put in place so commenters could be warned when they are breaking the guidelines, but warning a way that does not create a long thread discussing the flagging. There are many ideas, it would take a lot of time to figure out which ones actually worked.