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Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by gfodor »

dopamean wrote: post #78
shittyadmin wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly don't mind the lack of comment reply notifications because I find that it makes conversations less aggressive than on sites like reddit which do that. Less of a feeling of a mandated reply, more opportunities for other users to speak up on your behalf.

> I find that it makes conversations less aggressive This is a really interesting perspective on it that I hadn't considered. I have long been annoyed by the lack of comment notifications but now that you put it that way I think you're right. This actually may be a feature of HN rather than a bug. Thanks for sharing that point.

This might be the most meta comment chain on HN.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by Loughla »

furicane wrote: post #44

As someone who started using internet in 1997. (I still consider myself green) - this is a perfect website. Could it use improvement? Yes. Does it need it? No. Simple, fast, does one thing and does it great, has no featuritis and overblown annoying "UX" that current web suffers from.

God, exactly. I don't come to news aggregators to see user profiles. I don't come for chat. I don't come for suggested articles. I don't come for any of the 'new' features people seem to want to cram into every god damned thing (Reddit, I'm looking at you).

I come because there will be insight into articles/stories that I won't get from any other site. And all you need for that is a simple threaded discussion.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by joatmon-snoo »

gfodor wrote: post #131
dopamean wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I find that it makes conversations less aggressive This is a really interesting perspective on it that I hadn't considered. I have long been annoyed by the lack of comment notifications but now that you put it that way I think you're right. This actually may be a feature of HN rather than a bug. Thanks for sharing that point.

This might be the most meta comment chain on HN.

This entire thread itself is pretty meta :)

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by LiterallyDoge »

pavlov wrote: post #3

"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007... And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place…

These are all marketing gimmicks demanded by PO's. UX people do the opposite.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by christophilus »

JshWright wrote: post #111
christophilus wrote: post #80

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Click your username-> comments, and you get above list of your comments, ordered by time. I think it’s perfect. I don’t like having little notification icons everywhere.

Isn't that the same thing as "Threads" in the header?

Whaat! Yes, it is. I’ve never clicked the “threads” link, it would seem.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by Topgamer7 »

0xcafecafe wrote: post #102
jermaink wrote: post #13

HN is a perfect example of an classic, evergreen product. Or call it a crocodile product, as crocodiles are somewhat location-loyal. Are there more examples of products that did (on purpose) not change significantly? If you consider the sentiment on the recent GMail redesign, Facebook, .. it often appears that product managers are the only ones that want to change the product and its appeal. I think Reddit also had t…

As an avid redditor, I wish they preserved the crocodile concept. I can't bring myself to like their "new reddit" and always keep going back to "old.reddit.com/...".

Their leadership has this notion that people just don't like change, and that's why they use old. To me, I just don't like the new design. It's painful, old is simple, clear, and quick.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by dreamcompiler »

joatmon-snoo wrote: post #134
gfodor wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This might be the most meta comment chain on HN.

This entire thread itself is pretty meta :)

This reply is quite clever, but at the current nesting level, nobody will notice.

Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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Post by chasedehan »

JshWright wrote: post #111
christophilus wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Click your username-> comments, and you get above list of your comments, ordered by time. I think it’s perfect. I don’t like having little notification icons everywhere.

Isn't that the same thing as "Threads" in the header?

Whoa! Same, I guess I never clicked "Threads". Even things as simple as HN can still have more buttons/links than a lot of people will actually use.
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