Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

#1

Post by ramphastidae » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

I’m currently in a country with low speed internet and the entire ‘modern’ web is basically unusable except HN, which still loads instantly. Reddit, Twitter, news and banking sites are all painfully slow or simply time out altogether.

To PG, the mods and whoever else is responsible: thank you for not trying to ‘fix’ what isn’t broken.

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#2

Post by cameronbrown » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

old.reddit.com is still usable if it helps!

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#3

Post by mooreds » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:39 PM UTC

I like

https://text.npr.org/

for this as well.

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#4

Post by colmvp » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:39 PM UTC

Is PG even involved with HN anymore? He hasn't posted on his account in four years.

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#5

Post by B_Throwaway » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:40 PM UTC

For twitter you can disable JS and it will fallback to a ""degraded"" (a.k.a. Much faster & usable) experience.

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#6

Post by emersonrsantos » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:41 PM UTC

Amen. It’s the most pleasant site I use every day. Even Google search is beginning to slow down to a crawl in some hours (and Google used to be blazing fast).

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#7

Post by LarryDarrell » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

There is lite.cnn.io as well.

I wish there were more.

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#8

Post by overcast » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

I wish they would update the line-height to something more reasonable. ~1.5x font size would be go a long way in paragraph readability. Other than that, it's fast and stable. About all I require from a forum.

Edit: All my lovely responders, I appreciate the feedback, but I don't want to install addons/mods/hacks to fix line-height.

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#9

Post by vermontdevil » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:46 PM UTC

For FB

https://mbasic.facebook.com/home.php

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#10

Post by dangom » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

colmvp wrote: post #4

Is PG even involved with HN anymore? He hasn't posted on his account in four years.

I'd suppose he'd use a throwaway if he'd want to post anything. Otherwise it'd draw too much attention and get too many upvotes and replies, essentially killing the small amount of neutrality we get here.