Fix HackerNews Issue #11, which is driving us all crazy: Unknown or expired link

#1

Post by cortexman » Wed, May 07, 2014, 2:28 AM UTC

Folks, this isn't brain science. When a user clicks the More link, they don't care that the order of links has changed. Just take them to what you are presently showing users for that page.

This is driving every. single. one. of. us. CRAZY. Whoever knows the code - I am shaming you! GO FIX IT NOW!

https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/11

Re: Fix HackerNews Issue #11, which is driving us all crazy: Unknown or expired link

#2

Post by theseoafs » Wed, May 07, 2014, 3:06 AM UTC

Won't happen. Hacker News is the Minimum Viable Product.

Re: Fix HackerNews Issue #11, which is driving us all crazy: Unknown or expired link

#3

Post by grandpoobah » Wed, May 07, 2014, 3:10 AM UTC

pg is gone, who will fix it now

Re: Fix HackerNews Issue #11, which is driving us all crazy: Unknown or expired link

#4

Post by mh- » Wed, May 07, 2014, 3:11 AM UTC

theseoafs wrote: post #2

Won't happen. Hacker News is the Minimum Viable Product.

until it's not [viable|minimum]. we'll see which.

Re: Fix HackerNews Issue #11, which is driving us all crazy: Unknown or expired link

#5

Post by BorisMelnik » Wed, May 07, 2014, 3:12 AM UTC

Everything has really been working great overall on the site. I don't normally chime in on these HN political pages, but this issue is quite bothersome.

Re: Fix HackerNews Issue #11, which is driving us all crazy: Unknown or expired link

#6

Post by justplay » Wed, May 07, 2014, 3:16 AM UTC

Technically i understand its importance but in terms of UX this thing is terrible. For a non English speakers, they usually take some time to reply and most of the time they end up with `expired link`. I doubt the user who wrote very big comment (usually highest rated comment in that thread) use HN editor, I guess they first write in the word processor and then copy it here since the amount of time it involved in writing comment is not sufficient.