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Re: Questions about Hacker News

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Post by skim_milk » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

1. Which age range do you fall under? 20's

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 5 years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? every now and then

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Moderation, deeper and more in-depth content and comments

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Keep up-to-date in my fields and learn from what the community has to offer. Yes

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I like how few features there are, it does one job and does it well

10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

A rare, quality public online community

Re: Questions about Hacker News

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Post by cosmojg » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 5:13 PM UTC

1. 20s

2. Yes

3. 5 years

4. Every other day

5. Yes, every now and then

6. 9/10 usability

7. The interface and the community are better than those found anywhere else (except maybe Lobste.rs)

8. I want to entertain myself and hopefully learn something. Usually, I succeed.

9. Maybe make the post and comment interactions a little bigger? I mistap and misclick fairly often.

10. Simple, efficient, and sane.

Re: Questions about Hacker News

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Post by chefkoch » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

1 40s 2 yes 3 6 4 multiple times a day 5 now and then 6 8 7 lightweight good comment Section 8 get smarter 9 10

Re: Questions about Hacker News

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Post by Jugurtha » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 7:32 PM UTC

>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

30's

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y.

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

8

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

Multiple times daily.

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

Define contribute. Writing code for ycombinator.com? No. Commenting, etc? Yes.

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

9.5

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Because it's awesome.

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

I mainly answer questions about issues I know a thing or two about, and read insights from interesting people.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I use hnreplies.com to get replies and to respond to people in a timely manner.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Great.

Re: Questions about Hacker News

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Post by solarmist » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 8:36 PM UTC

>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

40s

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

12

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

once a day on average

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

yes, often

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

8

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

High degree of alignment on interests while still having a good range of opinions and civil discourse

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Keep up to date on tech, tech industry, startup culture news.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I'd add the ability to follow or highlight people who's comments/submissions I'm interested in.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Straightforward and useful.

Re: Questions about Hacker News

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Post by rnd0 » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 9:09 PM UTC

1.) 50's

2.) No.

3.) 6

4.) multiple times per day (it's replaced /. etc for me)

5.) Not sure what you mean.

6.) 5

7.) It's not a foaming at the mouth righty site, clean design of the comment section

8.) n/a

9.) The ability to save threads/comments/stories to a list on my account to make it easier to go back and read them in the future

10.) Orange, yellow, white.

Re: Questions about Hacker News

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Post by kody » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 10:54 PM UTC

>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

20s

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

9

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

multiple times daily

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

yes, every now and then

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

10

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Quality content and conversation.

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Learn something new. Yes.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

Add: get notifications on replies.

Remove: flags automatically killing threads.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Orange.