Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

Post by graeme » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 1:43 PM UTC

sequoia wrote: post #224

graeme wrote: post #78

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What do you mean? Haven't had that issue. Am on desktop version, unsure if mobile exists

I always accidentally log out when I try to click on my username in iOS.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

_ps6d wrote: post #57

HN is lightweight in some ways, but also quite bad in others. For example, every single time you vote on anything, the site sends back a 302 redirect and then a copy of the entire page's HTML in response. This means that every vote results in a response that's usually around 10KB gzipped. As of right now, for me, voting on any comment in this thread currently causes a 14KB response and takes about 1.3 seconds to fini…

Post by longtom » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 3:02 PM UTC

sundarurfriend wrote: post #352

longtom wrote: post #345

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For anyone interested, I just put together a userscript with some rudimentary key assignments for the Basic HTML version of Gmail: https://pastebin.com/raw/kHyZXcTY gi Go to inbox gk Go to first label inbox t Toggle checkbox of current mail mr Mark checked mails as read mu Mark checked mails as unread k Navigate up in mail list (shift twice as fast) j Navigate down in mail list h Go to older mail(s) l Go to newer mai…

Thanks a lot! This was the only thing I missed from the JS version, but it wasn't worth the slowdown/heaviness that that version brought with it. Now this gives me the best of both worlds.

Post by psteinweber » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 3:10 PM UTC

rahidz wrote: post #36

On the other hand voting is a pain on mobile, even with a large screen I often misclick.

Post by dmarlow » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 3:25 PM UTC

JaRail wrote: post #272

dmarlow wrote: post #101

I love hearing stories about people choosing to forego large frontend frameworks, or even not using JS altogether. Is there a community or name for this? If not, I'm going to call it #neverscript. I find the web works far better, more often, for me when SPAs and JS aren't used. There's something about minimalistic sites that's very appealing to me. I know it doesn't work for all sites, but a lot of the web could be i…

When you're not using frameworks/libraries, it's typically referred to as vanilla js . Probably the name stuck thanks to this amazing satire of a js library. http://vanilla-js.com/ . This was basically around the time browsers got good enough that jQuery was no longer needed. It essentially emphasized that all the showcase features of popular 'must-have' js libraries were now a standard part of modern browsers.