Hacker News doesn't have an undo button for upvotes and no one seems to care.
I've seen a few social media sites before, and HN's upvote button looks how I expect an upvote button to look, and it's positioned where I expect an upvote button to be (next to a corresponding downvote button). Most importantly, it only activates with a mouse-click, which is the conventional way for a user to request some kind of state-change on the web. By contrast, the kudos widget looks like nothing in particular…
I don't know if this makes you a hater, or someone who just can't appreciate great design, or something else.
Really? Wondering how to monetize a blogazine is concern trolling driven by hating Dustin Curtis? I worry that moderating this community has jaded you. (That's concern trolling.) It's a valid question, and one I'd ask of any blogazine that received funding; do you stick ads on it? Charge a subscription fee? Sell user data?
Not all of it, no, but some of it. (The whole point of concern trolling is that the two are indistinguishable, so you only notice something's amiss when you see odd patterns.)
pg- when i first read your comments i was surprised at the categorical ad hominem dismissal of svbtle's critics. scrolling down, i see what u mean- the level of negativity and vitriol engendered by seemingly innocuous facts is surprisingly out of proportion. even for HN :) one wonders why the posters torture themselves so much.
the internet has always been packed with garbage - but garbage to you can be treasure to me. don't like it? click the back button! it's always been that easy.
it's almost as if these out of proportion "controversies" against svbtle are being manufactured by svbtle supporters in order to attract attention? sounds like it could work :)
I liked the minimlistic approach of Svbtle, so I created a super simple Git+Markdown-based blog that draws inspiration from Svbtle. Check it out: http://hveem.no/simple-blogging-with-lua-and-git
The background dots behind the text make this a chore to read, I had to give up as this was hurting my eyes.