Mobile friendly CSS is long overdue :)
What would that entail? Note that HN's page structure (table-based design) makes some things in pure CSS ... challenging.
Slightly larger buttons would be welcome, at least as an option. That's all I'd change.
Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
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#102IMO, Reddit is still usable but only via https://old.reddit.com . I still use Reddit daily, but I can't stand the horrific new design. I also highly curate my subscribed subreddits and use multireddits to combine subject matters. On Android I use Reddit Sync[1] (which has an ad-free pro version I paid a one-time $5 fee for). I worry about the day they discontinue old.reddit.com, or decide to cripple third-party apps…
All I can say is that when I post copies of code or recipes, but with the markdown fixed for old, I usually get quite a lot of upvotes. So depending on the sub it might be significant (of course, I’m also not in any huge subs).
I really hope it's significant! Keep old.reddit.com alive!
Was wondering if they provide stats for this anywhere and apparently they do on a per-subreddit level that only mods can see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/m2615l/what...
Look at the unique pageview charts, it seems like old.reddit.com is just a bit higher than new reddit but not by much.
This user[1] posted a graph[2] from a much larger subreddit. They didn't mention which but they moderate quite a few subreddits but I think this one if from /r/Minecraft.
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/m2615l/what...
Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I find so many bugs in reddit that it's surprising to me that a more streamlined replacement hasn't arisen. But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0 is about on par with how my reddit experience has been for years and yet reddit is still massively popular. Shrug. I guess it's hard to believe that sometimes market conditions can overcome bad engineering and then you add all the…
> But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0 What visible changes have been done since Elon took over Twitter + are buggy changes? I hardly notice anything different to be honest. There is a view counter and more people have the blue checkmark, otherwise things mostly seems to be the same. The ads panel (for publishing ads) is as broken as it has always been, so seems it has neither i…
I've had a few instances of data inconsistencies. Like a tweet says it has three likes, but you check which who's liked it it's only one person.
Still very far from the same league as new reddit's jank.
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#104It is kind of ironic that so many professionals come to HN for a breath of fresh air, after which they continue building the UX they were escaping from in the first place.
Most visitors to HN are unlikely to have a significant voice in defining the UX of things they build for a living.
Most stakeholders with voice in defining the UX of things they build for a living do not visit HN.
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#105As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page. That said, it's relatively unobtrusive. And of course, the existence of HN is a large part of the marketing for YCombinator itself. Personally, I'll commend dang for doing a high-effort job at moderation, and tolerating all the dunking on Paul Graham t…
True, but those job ads are text-only and unlikely to contain malware. Normal web ads are the opposite in both regards.
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#106“only ask is to revisit CSS a bit and make it mobile friendly. I.e slightly larger fonts”
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No! I’ve been visiting daily on the smallest of phones for well over a decade. Please, please, please don’t change anything. It’s great as is. If it’s not broke, don’t fix!
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#107As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page. That said, it's relatively unobtrusive. And of course, the existence of HN is a large part of the marketing for YCombinator itself. Personally, I'll commend dang for doing a high-effort job at moderation, and tolerating all the dunking on Paul Graham t…
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Appropriately motivated and principled patronage ... is a fairly good media model. Far superior to naked advertising. On par with public or membership sponsorship.
People often say that the internet would die without intrusive ad tracking. HN is a pretty good example of the opposite, and there are many others. An electronics store I frequent hosts old-school electronics forum, a nearby youth hobby center hosts news and forums for scale model building, and so forth.
The smaller your audience, the less likely you are to get trolls and just the general population of morons.
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#109My only (primary, continuous, and ignored) complaint is that OP's text post's contrast matches the contrast of less-useful comments, making every Self-HN post seem subconsciously and automatically downvoted. It was "tradition,"? No, it's archaic and ironic for a site with so many A11y/accessibility advocates.
I emailed them once asking to change that and kind of got a shrug in response. Maybe more emails will convince them?
I also emailed them. Was asked for a minimal change to make it better and I suggested changing adding a class to the to color: #333. This was in August 2021 but it hasn't been changed.
Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
#110My only (primary, continuous, and ignored) complaint is that OP's text post's contrast matches the contrast of less-useful comments, making every Self-HN post seem subconsciously and automatically downvoted. It was "tradition,"? No, it's archaic and ironic for a site with so many A11y/accessibility advocates.
PG did it in the early days, as far as I can recall. The point was to discourage descriptive posts, preventing it from turning into reddit, and rather encourage posts linking to tech materials.