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Yes, and there are often YC company job postings on the front page, which are technically ads.
And there's a favicon so it's not text-only. /s
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Most stakeholders with voice in defining the UX of things they build for a living do not visit HN.
I see many posts on HN about how to design a good UX. Are these posts made for the wrong audience?
The hope is that the audience for these posts, generally indie developers building new sites from scratch, will one day be able to shape the existing large sites that can afford to employ the majority of developers.
The reality is that the existing large sites that can afford to employ the majority of developers have PMs that mandate the horrific UX we encounter day to day.
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#133Hot take: I think the lack of mobile support is a feature, not a bug. Mobile interfaces are responsible for much of the noise of mainstream social media, they encourage short form content creation because the interface is too simplistic and typing on a tiny touchscreen keyboard is unpleasant and error-prone. By making the only viable interface a desktop interface you put up an additional barrier to that type of noise…
I’m reading this on a phone, right now, and it’s perfectly usable.
Yeah, it's very usable on mobile
It uses very little data, making it also useful to test those "is my connection bad or is it the website that's down?" cases
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This site is wholly subsidized by YC and could not stand on its own, so I'm not sure it's a straightforward example of capitalism working...
How is this not a straightforward example of capitalism? This site is privately owned, therefore it is free to flow in the capital market.
It's not a straightforward example of capitalism because it doesn't earn enough through its service to support itself, and must be propped up by an otherwise external entity.
The concept of "private ownership" is not definitionally identical to the concept of "capitalism", I hope you realize...
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#135> My only ask is to revisit CSS a bit and make it mobile friendly. I.e slightly larger fonts and hit areas for expand/collapse. It’s too easy to hit the wrong button on a phone.
There is a weird thing with the vote arrows on iPad in particular, if you tap the upvote arrow, the downvote arrow disappears first, then later the upvote arrow disappears.
Always second guessing which arrow I've hit. Can only tell by looking at the text to unvote vs. undown.
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#136> My only ask is to revisit CSS a bit and make it mobile friendly. I.e slightly larger fonts and hit areas for expand/collapse. It’s too easy to hit the wrong button on a phone.
Does anyone know why this hasn't been done? I find things are very small to click even on desktop. Seems there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that could be cleaned up.
I don't like using plugins or custom stylesheets because I fear something breaking one day and giving me a headache (HN withdrawal). I also don't like using alternate HN viewers for fear that they will track me.
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#137It 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.
Right -- I joke that HN's design weeds out people who both a) need a site to look glamorous, and b) are incapable of modifying it on their end to look that way. That probably has significant overlap with UX designers who determine other sites' looks!
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#138> My only ask is to revisit CSS a bit and make it mobile friendly. I.e slightly larger fonts and hit areas for expand/collapse. It’s too easy to hit the wrong button on a phone. Does anyone know why this hasn't been done? I find things are very small to click even on desktop. Seems there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that could be cleaned up. I don't like using plugins or custom stylesheets because I fear something b…
I have HN on 150% in Firefox on desktop (FF remembers individual scaling, not sure about other browsers) and on mobile I scale with two fingers. It's of course not a perfect solution but works.
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#139As 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…
> and tolerating all the dunking on Paul Graham that we do. Who wouldn't enjoy some friendly ribbing of their boss's boss? :)
Jeff Bezos should consider a haircut
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How is this not a straightforward example of capitalism? This site is privately owned, therefore it is free to flow in the capital market.
It's not a straightforward example of capitalism because it doesn't earn enough through its service to support itself, and must be propped up by an otherwise external entity. The concept of "private ownership" is not definitionally identical to the concept of "capitalism", I hope you realize...
Private ownership and the protection of those property rights are exactly what capitalism is. As long as there is no coercive entity dictating what YC can and cannot do with it's capital then HN absolutely is a product of capitalism.
Capitalism doesn't mean "earn[ing] enough through its service to support itself". Why do you think that people are not free to finance sites that promote other branches of their business under capitalism?