And he made his last comment 3 years ago.
I still remember reading his posts here, didn't expect them to be so long in the past.
“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
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Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#42"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007... And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place…
The only thing I miss are comment reply notifications. Someone might reply to something I wrote in comments a week ago and I have to visit my comment history periodically to check that. It doesn't have to be an active notification. Just add a numeric field added to user account that means "you got N new replies" and show it in the top-right corner next to my username. Once I see it, I will go and browse through comme…
I honestly don't mind the lack of comment reply notifications because I find that it makes conversations less aggressive than on sites like reddit which do that.
Less of a feeling of a mandated reply, more opportunities for other users to speak up on your behalf.
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I for one would like to see some improvements. Here is my wishlist: 1. Markdown support 2. More profile capabilities. e.g. avatars, vanity URLs, link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc. 3. Automatically create cache link for articles in case their hosts go down after being linked from HN. 4. Revision history for comments.
And an easier way to collapse comments on mobile
Easier than the [-] next to each comment? If you have javascript enabled, they should show up.
Not sure how it could be improved?
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#44As someone who started using internet in 1997. (I still consider myself green) - this is a perfect website.
Could it use improvement? Yes. Does it need it? No.
Simple, fast, does one thing and does it great, has no featuritis and overblown annoying "UX" that current web suffers from.
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I for one would like to see some improvements. Here is my wishlist: 1. Markdown support 2. More profile capabilities. e.g. avatars, vanity URLs, link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc. 3. Automatically create cache link for articles in case their hosts go down after being linked from HN. 4. Revision history for comments.
I would dislike all of this except markdown support.
Even cache links? Why?
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#46"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007... And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place…
I for one would like to see some improvements. Here is my wishlist: 1. Markdown support 2. More profile capabilities. e.g. avatars, vanity URLs, link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc. 3. Automatically create cache link for articles in case their hosts go down after being linked from HN. 4. Revision history for comments.
Avatars.
The main purpose of avatars is to track you. Please, HN, do not add avatars.
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#47HN is a perfect example of an classic, evergreen product. Or call it a crocodile product, as crocodiles are somewhat location-loyal. Are there more examples of products that did (on purpose) not change significantly? If you consider the sentiment on the recent GMail redesign, Facebook, .. it often appears that product managers are the only ones that want to change the product and its appeal. I think Reddit also had t…
In the Netherlands an early very (1998) popular web page is http://www.startpagina.nl , and it's still popular with non-tech savvy people. http://www.nu.nl (1999) is the country's most popular news page, http://www.marktplaats.nl (1999) the most popular Craig's list / Ebay equivalent. They have all tweaked their UI over two decades if you look closely but make sure they look more or less the same as ever. Actually Te…
Teletekst is an outlier, because it did not start as a web page, but the design has been consistent over the years and I still use the site and the app for news, TV guide and weather forecast daily!
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I for one would like to see some improvements. Here is my wishlist: 1. Markdown support 2. More profile capabilities. e.g. avatars, vanity URLs, link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc. 3. Automatically create cache link for articles in case their hosts go down after being linked from HN. 4. Revision history for comments.
I would dislike all of this except markdown support.
I dislike them all, except for someone else's comment above about comment reply notifications - which doesn't even have to be active, just a number next to your username at the top when reloading a page.
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#49Does HN make money?
Can I turn around this question and ask how much does it cost to run HN?
Re: “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
#50"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007... And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place…
Well just look at the recent Reddit redesign. It made the site much slower without adding any apparent improvement to usability.
Reddit's mobile site is also intentionally user-hostile to try to get them to use the app. Although that's not a part of the recent redesign, they had that for a long time now.