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Given, and it surely promotes their visibility when you're looking for discussion threads explicitly. However, I find that when discussion/ask threads are mixe
by Magneus 16y ago
Given, and it surely promotes their visibility when you're looking for discussion threads explicitly.
However, I find that when discussion/ask threads are mixed in with the aggregate, it's easier on the brain when they're clearly labeled as such.
Maybe I need a cognitive tune-up, but I find that I often will scan through the headlines, notice an ambiguously-titled thread, and have to do a quick judgment call: "Hm, is this a poorly-titled discussion thread or a rhetorically-titled headline?"
My argument is simply to remove those minor hiccups to improve the experience of digging through the firehose of content that comes through HN.
- _delirium 16y agoOne possibility would be for the HN code to somehow visually distinguish them, with a slightly different shade or other indicator.
- Magneus 16y agoExcellent idea. This would be a good solution if pg has the time to hack it together.
- kgermino 16y agoThey are already visually distinguished. You have to look but every story post shows the domain after the title while ask (URL-less) posts do not. Between this and the ask page I never have problems finding question posts. Changing the color or doing something else to try and distinguish the ask posts would probably only detract from the simply look of HN.