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And behold, it is :)
No, mgiannopoulos[0], there is no limit on nesting replies that I'm aware of. I'm nesting another one now! There is rate-limiting, though, which is probably what you hit. Wait a bit, and you can reply. Or click the "XX minutes ago", and I've found you can reply there. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186528
I test my internet connection with HN. It is more reliable than Google these days.
"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…
Thank you Paul and everyone else involved.
Thank you fellow HNers <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…
The only thing I miss are comment reply notifications. Someone might reply to something I wrote in comments a week ago and I have to visit my comment history periodically to check that. It doesn't have to be an active notification. Just add a numeric field added to user account that means "you got N new replies" and show it in the top-right corner next to my username. Once I see it, I will go and browse through comme…
IMO this should be a core feature. But I’m just happy to have something that works.
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> Are there more examples of products that did (on purpose) not change significantly? I think Craigslist would be the classic example of a simple design that hasn't changed significantly over its lifetime.
Google Search?
From not being able to use "+" in queries to how your queries are interpreted to what you actually get as your results (from map results to AMP articles, there's a whole spectrum), it's very much a different product these days.
I test my internet connection with HN. It is more reliable than Google these days.
Translation: I'm proud of what i created. It's holding up well.