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But News.YC prides itself on having both a terrible user interface and a terrible user experience. What kind of site calls a feature "noprocrast" without givin
by dcurtis 19y ago
But News.YC prides itself on having both a terrible user interface and a terrible user experience.
What kind of site calls a feature "noprocrast" without giving any detailed information about what it does? Only news.yc!
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I wonder why I am being modded down. Maybe I said it too sarcastically. News.YC really does have a terrible interface. Look at the account settings page-- imagine yourself as a user who has never been there before. It's confusing and poorly documented. I love this site for the content and the simplicity, but Paul Graham is a programmer and spent very little time on the user experience, which makes sense. I don't blame him.
But it is still a bad interface. I'm pretty sure 99% of people who fill out the "email" field expect their email to somehow be visible to other users. It's right next to another field that IS visible.
- bayareaguy 19y agoDon't sweat the small stuff.
- dkokelley 19y agoThink of it as a filter for non-technical types.
- DaniFong 19y agoShiny graphics do not a user experience make.
- dcurtis 19y agoOf course not. Craigslist has an amazing masterpiece of an interface and uses no icons/pictures at all.
- DaniFong 19y agoThere seems to be some disagreement over what we mean by 'user interface' and 'user experience'. Those who downmodded you probably thought 'I like using YC news just fine thanks.' When I hit the little ycn button on my dash, i'm immediately greeted with a list of interesting articles, flanked by comments that are worth reading. That's the most important part of the user experience for us, so here we stay.
- dcurtis 19y agoAh. The content here is great. I'm not denying that YC is awesome. It just has a sub-par interface. Compared to other sites, it has a terrible UI. It's not very user friendly, and it could be much more so.