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Re: Hackernews.com

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Post by gtirloni »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #10
JimiofEden wrote: post #5

It's convenient, but I've developed muscle memory to just type news.ycombinator over the last 10 years, so I guess it doesn't matter much for me. When I first discovered the site, I definitely had to google 'hacker news' in order to find it consistently, however, so maybe someone else can get good use out of it.

Sometimes I think I am the only person left in the world who still uses the "Bookmarks" feature of my web browser.

I only really use the bookmarks in the toolbar. Anything that gets bookmarked away from that is in the "will read it eventually but not really" territory.

Re: Hackernews.com

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Post by sumtechguy »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #10
JimiofEden wrote: post #5

It's convenient, but I've developed muscle memory to just type news.ycombinator over the last 10 years, so I guess it doesn't matter much for me. When I first discovered the site, I definitely had to google 'hacker news' in order to find it consistently, however, so maybe someone else can get good use out of it.

Sometimes I think I am the only person left in the world who still uses the "Bookmarks" feature of my web browser.

Think some of my bookmarks date back to mosaic. About once a year I sweep them and purge a good amount of them as I have hundreds nicely organized into categories. They 'rot' so not worth keeping. Sometimes I will point them at archive but usually I can not even remember why I bookmarked them in the first place.

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Post by athorax »

host.io shows 65 other domains that re-direct to ycombinator.com. Can't search specifically for ones that re-direct specifically to news.ycombinator.com afaik

https://host.io/ycombinator.com

Particularly enjoyed ireallylikechicken.com that redirects to an HN thread talking about squatting that domain

Re: Hackernews.com

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Post by kingcharles »

sumtechguy wrote: post #22
LeoPanthera wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes I think I am the only person left in the world who still uses the "Bookmarks" feature of my web browser.

Think some of my bookmarks date back to mosaic. About once a year I sweep them and purge a good amount of them as I have hundreds nicely organized into categories. They 'rot' so not worth keeping. Sometimes I will point them at archive but usually I can not even remember why I bookmarked them in the first place.

I was just away from the Internet for 8 years. When I checked my bookmarks 99% of them were dead links. I wonder how many from Mosaic days would still be valid?

Re: Hackernews.com

#30

Post by Springtime »

nhumrich wrote: post #19
metagame wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's because the UX for them is awful and takes up valuable real-estate unless you put them in a folder that's nowhere near your toolbar in which case you will never see them again, especially after a Mozilla update corrupts them, leaving you without the URLs you so carefully curated and with a vague sense of regret that you trusted one of the most important things (your memory) to a company that gets the largest maj…

In Firefox, you can "keyword" your bookmarks so that typing a specific string goes to your bookmark

It's definitely more convenient. I have mine set to 'hn' in Vivaldi browser to take me there.
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