Maybe they upgraded from Samsung Galaxy A52 to A53. :D
Joking aside, even if the site has a massive number of users, it seems pretty efficient to me and I don't think it needs a ton of resources.
Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
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Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Render server-side (or on the edge) for those who don't run client-side scripts.
Can that be detected by the site? (in a non-hacky way)
Yes, by including code that if run, alters what happens. For example, you can add JavaScript code that handles the "comments" links on the front page in the new way (fetch the data and render it). For those browsers that don't run the code, everything will continue to work in the old way (links will cause a request to the server, which will render the comments).
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#33Off topic, but I’d love for HN to have larger buttons on mobile. Particularly the up/down vote buttons. I have to zoom in to press which makes it the only site I regularly interact with that requires this.
Yes! And the button hit-area is a little strange, even zoomed in. Half the time I'm not even sure I hit the right arrow.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed the same. Never seen it get overloaded before, but it's happened several times over the past week.
I thought that's a soft-lockout that's supposed to tell you to stop trying to comment on a topic. If you're persistent and really want to, you can after a minute or two, but if it's not that important, you go "meh, I guess not" and go on your merry way.
If my understanding is correct, they disable the “reply” to limit more comments. On every comment beyond a certain depth, reply is disabled for some time immediately following the comment.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#35Off topic, but I’d love for HN to have larger buttons on mobile. Particularly the up/down vote buttons. I have to zoom in to press which makes it the only site I regularly interact with that requires this.
I'm a contrarian by Nature so I will play devil's advocate and point out that having a little obstacle to your vote is a step in the direction of making sure you really mean it.
I say that after zooming in to give you an upvote of course
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#36Off topic, but I’d love for HN to have larger buttons on mobile. Particularly the up/down vote buttons. I have to zoom in to press which makes it the only site I regularly interact with that requires this.
Oh wow I thought everyone used third party client apps on mobile..! My experience with Octal on iOS has been really nice. The lack of a dark reader extension on iOS makes the regular site even harder to stomach but perhaps I should give it another chance.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
People switch accounts you know, I had to switch account after people set up downvote bots on my account when I had downvoted comments within minute from posting.
> account after people set up downvote bots on my account What's the motivation behind such thing? Why bother setting up bots for downvoting accounts? (FWIW I often get upvoted within seconds of posting)
silent the views you disagree with by making them unreadable and it's rather trivial to set up for folks here
this stopped happening immediately after I created new account, if HN would be transparent and showing who flagged or downvoted your comment and everyone would need to provide publicly visible reason for doing it we wouldn't have this discussion