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Show HN: New Hacker News web client
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Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client
#42And it's responsive!! Awesome. Reading HN on mobile has always been a pain.
Lol what? HN is the most simple website I visit nowadays, aside from plain html and apache file listing. There really isn't any way to make it easier, simpler and faster without sacrificing usability.
You mean doing a pinch gesture with your fingers to zoom is painful?
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#43In the words of Steve Jobs: "That is really ugly, and you're fired". It has that failed Web 3.0 look. More rounded corners, excessive margin, but less content per page. One commenter pointed out its easier on mobile, but that can be resolved with the existing style.
Please, think of the children.
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Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client
#45In the words of Steve Jobs: "That is really ugly, and you're fired". It has that failed Web 3.0 look. More rounded corners, excessive margin, but less content per page. One commenter pointed out its easier on mobile, but that can be resolved with the existing style. Please, think of the children.
> but less content per page
This is why engineers are not designers. Left up to engineers, every pixel would be crammed full of "content", all at 11px font.
Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client
#46And it's responsive!! Awesome. Reading HN on mobile has always been a pain.
Lol what? HN is the most simple website I visit nowadays, aside from plain html and apache file listing. There really isn't any way to make it easier, simpler and faster without sacrificing usability. You mean doing a pinch gesture with your fingers to zoom is painful?
Do you seriously not mind having to zoom in on every single thread, and constantly scrolling left to right to read a comment?
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#47This looks good, the animation on hover doesn't add any value though. My favourite HN client on phone is http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ . It's lean, fast and looks like a native app on the phone. I've added a shortcut to my mobile's home screen, using the 'Add to Home Screen' option in Chrome, which gives me a nice quick launch icon. The downside of both these clients is that you can't login or post using them.
I don't see any hover animations. Have they been removed?
Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client
#48Looks nice but I dislike the animations. Also maybe clicking anywhere in a div should open up the comments?
> maybe clicking anywhere in a div should open up the comments? That's what I would expect when you are presented with a change - link gets underlined, bottom slightly "opens" edit: Actually, those visuals could also mean a link would open. Probably even more than comments.
My line of thought was that since comments would open on the site it would have an animation whereas outbound links would use the tried-and-true underlining.
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#49I have been seeing quite often that the webpages makes it to first place on Hacker News are getting unresponsive, slow or even down just like this one. Is there anybody knows about the load statistics when a story on Hacker News gets on the first place? What i mean is; how many requests are made to a web page, what is the req/seq and etc? I guess this would be useful for me and other people to get ready for possible…
My blog has been in the top 5 a few times. When you reach the top 3 positions, you can expect around 150-250 simultaneous users for a few hours.
Top 5 is more like 50-75.
Top 15 is around 25-50.
Those numbers aren't req/sec but simultaneous user. There's a difference between the two but it still gives you a number to compare things to.
All you read about how the top 3 gets 75% of the traffic in Google is true to about every places where there's ordering.
As for the load, it depends a lot, that website seems to poll HN's API quite a lot so maybe that's how they get down (HN throttle the # of query).
I made it on the top 5 with a VPS on 128MB of RAM and didn't even feel it (without caching). You need a LOT of traffic for a blog to be affected by the load.
Obviously, when you do a lot of polling/database intensive stuff (games, etc.) the bottlenecks are easier to reach.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol what? HN is the most simple website I visit nowadays, aside from plain html and apache file listing. There really isn't any way to make it easier, simpler and faster without sacrificing usability. You mean doing a pinch gesture with your fingers to zoom is painful?
Do you seriously not mind having to zoom in on every single thread, and constantly scrolling left to right to read a comment?
I browse so many non-mobile websites (such as forums) that I do it without thinking about it, I actually had to pick up my phone just now to see how I actually use HN. Wasn't a problem at all. I don't know if the experience is more "painful" on other mobile browsers, but the experience is flawless on Safari.