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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by wingworks »

lolsal wrote: post #79

I had no idea there were people that needed to view HN differently - let alone 21+ ways. I find the "native" presentation basically perfect for both desktop and mobile browsing.

I think HN gets away without changing the site design in years because I'd say most HN users who want to see it differently will just make the changes themselves. It's not something an average consumer could do on say newyorktimes.

I for one can't stand the default design and use the Chrome extension Georgify, which makes it 1000x easier to read for me. But we're all different and I love that there are so many ways to consume this site. Or that I have the ability changes things to just the way I'd want.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by krapp »

gt_ wrote: post #126
krapp wrote: post #119

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> I struggle to see why anyone would want to dilute Hacker News with the affect-laden decadence of contemporary web design. >I am a visual artist and this is sincere. As a visual artist, you should be aware that your opinions on contemporary web design are subjective, and that those who disagree with you are not wrong in doing so. The sites posted here simply aren't for you, and that's fine. No one is forcing you to…

Aesthetics are not as subjective as you seem to think. I am not sitting on a high-horse here; I argue closer to the opposite. My assertion that contemporary web design is affect-laden has proof in the pudding. It is ridden with commercial "trend" and "delight". Contemporary web design lacks concern for either content or form. It is a maze of 'interactive expressionism'. I would go as far as to say it bears some respo…

>My assertion that contemporary web design is affect-laden has proof in the pudding. It is ridden with commercial "trend" and "delight". Contemporary web design lacks concern for either content or form. It is a maze of 'interactive expressionism'.

We seem to disagree on what "contemporary web design" means, then, because I see little lack of concern for content nor anything which could be described as "interactive expressionism" in many of the Hacker News alternatives posted here. The exception in my mind (and personal opinion) is "Tiled HN"[0], which I find difficult to even look at, but the rest seem to be little more noisy than HN itself, and arguably in some cases easier to read.

[0]http://www.tiledhn.com/

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by krapp »

dang wrote: post #133
jandrese wrote: post #125

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This is one of the few sites I frequent where I don't wish they would improve the interface. I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare. Seriously, for the main interface it is pretty much perfect. Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.

> I've been dreading the day HN gets the Dread something else; that won't happen. We love the text-based, information-dense, minimal style that pg created. I loved it years before becoming a mod and can't imagine changing it. Besides, we're so old-fashioned now that we're due to become retro chic in another half-cycle. Why sell at the bottom?

I think you could stand to tweak the default font size and leading just a skosh though, and make all that information dense text easier to read.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by dang »

jandrese wrote: post #149
dang wrote: post #133

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> I've been dreading the day HN gets the Dread something else; that won't happen. We love the text-based, information-dense, minimal style that pg created. I loved it years before becoming a mod and can't imagine changing it. Besides, we're so old-fashioned now that we're due to become retro chic in another half-cycle. Why sell at the bottom?

You won't, but what about the next guy? That's always the way these things go. Someone creates a nice simple service and gets a ton of traffice, but gets bored with running it and moves on. Next guy goes "This site looks like it is from 1997, and it's barely monetized at all, I've got this book on web design that will make it look 1000% better by getting rid of all of these ugly words and making it so beautifully min…

In that case we will have done a bad job of picking 'next guy'.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by KGIII »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #19
KGIII wrote: post #7

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They don't want you to know the secret to reading HN! On a more serious note, I'm pretty happy with seeing it right here on this very domain. Hell, I haven't even changed the orange header. The layout and navigation are simple but intuitive. The site is very light and loads quickly. I don't like how voting will make me jump around the page, but I can live with that. No site is perfect for everyone, after all. Yeah, I…

> voting will make me jump around the page What do you mean by that? Voting is handled by AJAX requests, so it shouldn't jump around.

Comment, then vote, and it brings me back to my comment.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by rasz »

dankohn1 wrote: post #38

The most useful HN addon is HN Replies by Dan Grossman. You get an email if someone replies to your comment. Simple UI and real value. http://www.hnreplies.com/

do you really need notifications that badly? whats wrong with clicking "threads" (4th link on the top of page) once per day.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by rasz »

teolandon wrote: post #23
wheresvic3 wrote: post #4

just use https://news.ycombinator.com - works great on mobile too

But that boring web app doesn't even have pretty fonts. It even has a "next" button, so you can see more than 30 posts, who needs that? It shows the point count in a smaller greyer font, instead of a big circle, so I can't instinctively choose posts by popularity instead of their headlines. It doesn't even pull up a random image from the article that might not have anything to do with the actual topic, and display it…

Good one, first few lines almost gave me a brain aneurysm before realizing what Im reading :-)
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