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

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Post by tonyarkles »

laichzeit0 wrote: post #6
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…

Like when they re-did the Slashdot interface. I remember it was crap and I stopped using it then. That's probably 10 years ago now.

The giant ad at the top definitely doesn’t help things, especially since it seems to randomly expand and contract as you go about your business...

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

cabalamat wrote: post #12
asaph wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Markdown support would certainly be useful for longer comments.

It's my top feature request, I mean you have to be able to post inline links, bullet points, code segments, etc on a site like this. IMO.

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

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Post by sbinthree »

asaph wrote: post #8
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 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.

I would dislike all of this except markdown support.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

elorant wrote: post #5
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…

Well just look at the recent Reddit redesign. It made the site much slower without adding any apparent improvement to usability.

They really dropped the ball, going for a single page application approach without emphasizing performance.

I mean I believe SPA's can be more performant and snappy than non-SPA's, but you have to have server-side rendering for the initial page load and minimize the amount of JS used. And then make sure rendering is fast; iirc they had inline styling everywhere a while ago (styled components?), and now nonsensical css classes (which, if they're unique, is probably good for css performance but probably still suboptimal).

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

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Post by scarface74 »

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 didn’t join until 2015, but I often go to http://tenyearsago.io/ [1] and I’m amazed about how little HN has changed in ten years.

[1] I have nothing to do with that site. I found out about it via a “Show HN” a few years ago.

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

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Post by ihuman »

asaph wrote: post #8
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 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.

> 2. More profile capabilities... link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc.

All they really need to do for that is make URLs into links in the "about" section. They already do this for comments; I'm not sure why they don't do that for profiles.

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

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Post by babuskov »

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…

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 comments to find it. When you open your comments page, it would reset this number to zero.

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

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Post by jnordwick »

1- Better comment markup support 2- More comments per page 3- Start page auto collapsed so only to level shows 4- verbatim sucks especially on mobile and too difficult to actual use for code 5- This was a list with numbers and is now trashed 6- make hiding work across devices
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