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Well then, the solution is to make it look less like work, so your brain isn't fooled. Get rid of the tasteful orange-and-grey colour scheme, and go for a purp
by hugh3 16y ago
Well then, the solution is to make it look less like work, so your brain isn't fooled.
Get rid of the tasteful orange-and-grey colour scheme, and go for a purple-and-black design inspired by videogame forums. Set the font to Comic Sans. Add user avatars, dancing hamsters, a "funny sound effect of the day" button, and rename the site from Hacker News to "Chat About Random Crap With Strangers From The Internet".
- pg 16y agoLike graphic bitrex. I don't think I could stand it.
- meric 16y agoWhat is a "graphic bitrex"? The first result for "graphic bitrex" on google is this comment.
- _delirium 16y agoBitrex is a bitter compound, used as (among other things) an additive to industrial alcohol to make it unappealing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium
- hxr 16y agoI think user generated tags go a long way in filtering out which stories I'd like to read/explore. (I used to read Slashdot until I found HN a few weeks ago). For now I just use the number of comments as good first approximation.
- techiferous 16y agoI think these tags would be useful: [programming] [startups] [drama] [meta]
- grinich 16y agoIt wouldn't be that hard to make an auto-tagging userscript using Delicious.