I noticed that a CSS fix I gave to pg for Hacker News over 10 years ago is still in place today. I’m proud to have a single brick in the foundation of a site that has lasted this long.
What was it?
Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
It still displays "Load basic HTML (for slow connections)" at the right bottom section of the loading page. :/
Yes it does. Like I said in my first comment, I have to click it every time I load gmail, because "Set basic HTML as default view" is gone.
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#393If there's one change they should make, it's a dark mode.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tap targets are minuscule and close to each other.
That's weird - must be an iPad specific thing. It works just fine on Android Chrome.
I've noticed that an Android Chrome I have no issues hitting the links on this site, but if I switch over to Firefox I can barely click anything. It's not just this site. That annoyance alone has almost driven me back to Chrome.
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#395people if you have such slow connections have can u even read the articals and.... it's a simple design and... but still u neeed to follow the links for more info....
also btw i used have having a horrible internet recently upgraded and it's pretty fast first world standart but still i like the clasic look
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#396Laughs in Romanian 5g mobile data unlimited plan
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but those fixes and workarounds are only almost enough to sometimes compensate for the code bloat that the frameworks themselves have caused.
People seem to be confusing web 2.0/bootstrap style design (see: Reddit's bad redesign) with the frameworks here but the component based approach combined with webpack/compilation steps, which are very much mainstreaming, are fundamentally different than top heavy JS frameworks I spent most of the last decade using. I dont think people have really seen what server-side rendering (ala Next.js/Nuxt.js), decoupled compo…
Or you can just use Elm from the start and not concern yourself with code-splitting, code-shaking and still get smaller assets. See for yourself: https://elm-lang.org/news/small-assets-without-the-headache .
Re: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
#398I 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…
I browse (and can browse) HN without javascript.
Only useful feature to me that javascript enables is comment hiding.