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You'd need some frontend code to hide the upvote icon though.
That frontend code already exists and does that every time you vote (line 27 of https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js ). The response content isn't used for anything at all.
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Footer. Also DDG !hn If DDG is your default browser, you can run that in the navbar. Which I do all the damned time.
Using that takes me to "This page will only work with JavaScript enabled" https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad So not nice!
I'm a fan of basic functionality w/o JS in most cases myself. I make exceptions for useful and non-annoying sites. Algolia meets both criteria.
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https://i.reddit.com is also simple and AFAIU more lightweight. Tends to work better than either www or old for console browsers (lynx, w3m, etc.) Some features, notably search, are broken, however.
reddit search is broken no matter how you look at it, it's been an ongoing meme since the beginning. One always uses google to search reddit.
I actually find it useful though. It's among the features that kept me using Reddit as a blogging engine for as long as I did, though accumulating annoyances have since driven me from that.
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No, you can set "Use new Reddit as my default experience ". At the bottom of the page, "beta options". https://old.reddit.com/prefs/ There is no "always use old reddit"
Hmm, it always shows me old reddit when I log in. I just tried logging out, got new reddit, then old reddit again as soon as I logged back in. Are you saying you have that checkbox you pointed out unchecked, and still get new reddit by default?
I basically never ever want to be there. I've specifically not enabled JS for 'www.reddit.com' so that the site won't load, but I still have to fix URLs manually when directed there.
What I'd like is for any 'www.reddit.com' I encounter on the site to be rewritten to 'old.reddit.com'.
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Sure, of course it can be much worse, and almost all other sites are. I'm just saying that HN could do it better, because there's no need for it to send a redirect or that full-page response unless the user has JS disabled. With JS, they could send a completely empty HTTP 200 response and it would work exactly the same (it does nothing with the response anyway). Right now HN is probably sending multiple gigabytes wor…
>almost all other sites are. That's their point. You're not wrong, you can always be better, but HN is barebones compared to almost all (using the mathematical definition...alright, facetiously using it) other sites.
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I’m always amused when the frameworks being used advertise things like “We make coding fun!” I tend to think “but what about making the web enjoyable for the end user?”
End users don't care. When they see a slow website they think "Awesome, now I have a reason to buy that new iPhone Jessica has because this one is getting slow"
https://mobile.twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1049082262854...
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When reading on an iPad, tapping on links is nearly impossible. A better responsive CSS file wouldn't make the site any slower or degrade the experience for laptop users.
On mobile, I use MiniHack (there are tons of other HN apps). On desktop, HN's interface works well enough that I don't try to mess with it. I really wish I could do one feature on the desktop/web that mobile MiniHack.app does on mobile - to enforce all links opened launch in reader mode in Safari webview. 99% of the time that's exactly what I want when I click through.
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How could it possibly be considered a good thing? I've seen dang say before that they've been running into performance issues, and I bet that they'd see a significant drop in resource usage solely by not generating entire comments pages just to throw them away every time anyone votes on a comment. The response is literally not used at all, they're doing that work and sending that data for no reason. There are multipl…
It's implemented this way for balance of a simple implementation and how lightweight it is. Not to mention, there is at least one benefit: the voting mechanism doesn't depend on JavaScript. And if you are not authenticated, you are instead taken to a login page. Logging in then gives you the redirect and the upvote is registered.