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Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#111
i like some of the things this does, but pretty much all of this is not UX improvements, it's UX opinions.

as a personal project to make HN better for you, i guess it's cool. but making every link open in a new tab so my back button never works is definitely not for me.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#112
post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, what value have you brought to the ecosystem? What's your github? Is this it? https://github.com/wesz

Yes, it is. I'm not really active on github (other than some toys i want to share with friends), i didn't even update portfolio on my website in over 10 years. I'm happy to share my projects and contributions privately, if you're interested.

Please share. You've said some nasty things in this thread about me personally as well as my hard work. Stuff that even got reprimanded by dang.

Now, you're talking about bringing value to the ecosystem, and I'm not sure how 10 year old github accounts, and private repositories fulfill that.

Let's see what you've got that is so amazing.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#113

i like some of the things this does, but pretty much all of this is not UX improvements, it's UX opinions. as a personal project to make HN better for you, i guess it's cool. but making every link open in a new tab so my back button never works is definitely not for me.

That's good feedback, I can change that to a preference.

UPDATE: implemented as a preference that you can turn off. just click the app icon in the extensions list.

https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/releases...

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#115

So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/

Why hire when you can get it for free?

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#116

So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/

Dan and I are full time YC employees and other engineers at YC do plenty to keep HN running. HN’s software is continually developed to handle growth in traffic, along with abuse, spam, and (particularly recently) bots and generated content. The lack of new UI features is not due to lack of resources/investment but because it’s always been the HN way to maintain a minimalist design and for the content and discussions to be the primary feature.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#117

So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/

Why hire when you can get it for free?

Because it's a mess. So many extensions are fighting each other because HN has long stagnated. There are so many AI startups with YCombinator that can rewrite it in a modern language and make it a POSITIVE example.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#118
post #116

So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/

Dan and I are full time YC employees and other engineers at YC do plenty to keep HN running. HN’s software is continually developed to handle growth in traffic, along with abuse, spam, and (particularly recently) bots and generated content. The lack of new UI features is not due to lack of resources/investment but because it’s always been the HN way to maintain a minimalist design and for the content and discussions…

"Minimalist" in 2026 is different than what it used to be in the '90s.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#119

So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/

Also, my favorite:

https://hckrnews.com

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#120
post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dan and I are full time YC employees and other engineers at YC do plenty to keep HN running. HN’s software is continually developed to handle growth in traffic, along with abuse, spam, and (particularly recently) bots and generated content. The lack of new UI features is not due to lack of resources/investment but because it’s always been the HN way to maintain a minimalist design and for the content and discussions…

"Minimalist" in 2026 is different than what it used to be in the '90s.

Of course, and part of my reason for being brought onto the team full time is to explore ways we can develop HN for the future. That doesn't mean that every 3rd-party HN project represents a feature that should be added to the core HN UI.
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