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Would love an all-time/yearly list! Also, I see a few comments criticizing the affiliate links. That's the reward you get for building cool stuff. No reason not

by espitia 10y ago

Would love an all-time/yearly list! Also, I see a few comments criticizing the affiliate links. That's the reward you get for building cool stuff. No reason not to!

throwanem 10y ago
Affiliate links are fine. A newsletter signup modal that pops up when I've scrolled most the way down the page, and when dismissed scrolls me back to the top, is not. What even is that supposed to be about, to be building a page for Hacker News readers and that seems like a sensible thing to do?
- icoder 10y ago
  Even worse, both the popup, and the dismissal of it, enter the back stack. So to get back to HN I had to click 'back' twice [edit: thrice of course]. I think it's an honest mistake. The fact that you dismissed the popup seems to be stored in a cookie, so it bothers you only once ever (twice if you use the back button). Sidenote: since I'm in the EU I think you need to need to ask me for permission, but let's not open that can of worms.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    I mean I don't doubt it's an honest mistake, but it's also an honest mistake that wouldn't have had the opportunity to be made absent the decision to annoy the user with the signup modal anti-pattern.
    - leandot 10y ago
      Will get rid of the popup (at least in that form) as soon as the load goes down a bit. Appreciate all the feedback.
    - icoder 10y ago
      I'm sure the decision itself wasn't 'to annoy the user', but I get your point
  - hga 10y ago
    It's now bothered me twice, 2nd time on a dynamic search page (and, BTW, after I subscribed by hitting the top level link to "Newsletter" :-). Indeed, get rid of it, your site design is so sparse it's hard (I think) to miss the "Newsletter" item at the top. Or put it inline somewhere else, e.g. at the bottom of the list, if someone's bothered to scroll down that far the odds they're interested in the newsletter are quite a bit higher, I'd think.

by espitia 10y ago

Would love an all-time/yearly list! Also, I see a few comments criticizing the affiliate links. That's the reward you get for building cool stuff. No reason not to!

throwanem 10y ago

Affiliate links are fine. A newsletter signup modal that pops up when I've scrolled most the way down the page, and when dismissed scrolls me back to the top, is not. What even is that supposed to be about, to be building a page for Hacker News readers and that seems like a sensible thing to do?

icoder 10y ago
Even worse, both the popup, and the dismissal of it, enter the back stack. So to get back to HN I had to click 'back' twice [edit: thrice of course]. I think it's an honest mistake. The fact that you dismissed the popup seems to be stored in a cookie, so it bothers you only once ever (twice if you use the back button). Sidenote: since I'm in the EU I think you need to need to ask me for permission, but let's not open that can of worms.
- throwanem 10y ago
  I mean I don't doubt it's an honest mistake, but it's also an honest mistake that wouldn't have had the opportunity to be made absent the decision to annoy the user with the signup modal anti-pattern.
  - leandot 10y ago
    Will get rid of the popup (at least in that form) as soon as the load goes down a bit. Appreciate all the feedback.
  - icoder 10y ago
    I'm sure the decision itself wasn't 'to annoy the user', but I get your point
- hga 10y ago
  It's now bothered me twice, 2nd time on a dynamic search page (and, BTW, after I subscribed by hitting the top level link to "Newsletter" :-). Indeed, get rid of it, your site design is so sparse it's hard (I think) to miss the "Newsletter" item at the top. Or put it inline somewhere else, e.g. at the bottom of the list, if someone's bothered to scroll down that far the odds they're interested in the newsletter are quite a bit higher, I'd think.