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

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Post by usrusr »

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…

Counter opinion: I think of hn as a perfect example of a non-product. I can't think of anything positive about hn that isn't ultimately traceable to its nature of not being a product.

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

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Post by lilactown »

Bartweiss wrote: post #122
Insanity wrote: post #57

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cache links sounds like an okay idea. OTOH, the avatars sounds like a horrible idea to me. I'm neutral on the markdown one, it wouldn't be too bad but it might end up making comments look like mini-articles rather than just comments.

I'm opposed to markdown for that reason. It's a bit of a shame that the existing formatting isn't aligned to markdown syntax, and I think lots of people don't know the code trick. But otherwise, I'm grateful to not have posts using headers, multipart essays with horizontal rules, or that "every word a hyperlink" style that people use when they want to intensify a statement by implying it's densely sourced or describi…

I think that just having a proper code block, that worked on mobile, would help a lot.

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

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Post by flycaliguy »

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…

I can't help but think a solid UX pro would know that the site's audience is a bunch of coders who dream in .txt files and would have acted accordingly. Wasn't this site designed to attract the hoodie and conference Tee crowd to YC projects in the first place?

(PS: this post is loving and in jest)

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

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Post by baddox »

sebazzz wrote: post #127
wild_preference wrote: post #117

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You can already do all of your examples. URLs are autolinked, bullet points just require \n\n, and there's a 4-space prefix for preformatted text. I think extraneous formatting would just create more incentives to write long, pretentious, streams of consciousness comments where someone just screams from their soap box instead of actually engaging anyone.

That is: https://example.com - Bullet list - Item 2 And preformatting which you DON'T want for quotes because they are very annoying to read on mobile

You forgot to hit Enter twice between each list item.

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

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Post by zerr »

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…

Agree. Techwise, interesting - what were some challenges that were solved? From the outside it seems like a webapp you could find in some PHP beginner's tutorial.

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

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Post by Bartweiss »

lilactown wrote: post #152
Bartweiss wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm opposed to markdown for that reason. It's a bit of a shame that the existing formatting isn't aligned to markdown syntax, and I think lots of people don't know the code trick. But otherwise, I'm grateful to not have posts using headers, multipart essays with horizontal rules, or that "every word a hyperlink" style that people use when they want to intensify a statement by implying it's densely sourced or describi…

I think that just having a proper code block, that worked on mobile, would help a lot.

Bringing over the markup for monospacing would actually be really nice, yeah. It is irritating that code can't be inlined and requires an unusual input like leading spaces to mark out.

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

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Post by justplay »

yitchelle wrote: post #83
bluedino wrote: post #73

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One server, probably < $100/month

Are they any full time admins/mods of HN? Probably wrong, I get the feeling those who moderates are doing it during their idle time while working at YC?

dang works for full-time to moderate HN as per https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...

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

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Post by asaph »

jacquesm wrote: post #149
asaph wrote: post #8

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I for one would like to see some improvements. Here is my wishlist: 1. Markdown support 2. More profile capabilities. e.g. avatars, vanity URLs, link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc. 3. Automatically create cache link for articles in case their hosts go down after being linked from HN. 4. Revision history for comments.

Here is mine: - cap karma at 1000 points - get rid of the leaderboard Other than that I wouldn't change a thing.

> cap karma at 1000 points

Why?

> get rid of the leaderboard

Why?

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