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HN? 1) I have no clue who responded to me 2) I cannot even delete my comments while Paul Graham shouts about privacy from rooftops HN is not even functional,

HN? 1) I have no clue who responded to me 2) I cannot even delete my comments while Paul Graham shouts about privacy from rooftops HN is not even functional, let alone bruatalist. And the reason is simple- they will be shredded down because they know it's easy to say things than to do things.

christophilus 9y ago
You can easily see who responded to you by looking at your comments under your profile. I can delete my comments... not sure why you wouldn't be able to. I think HN is about as perfect a site for its purpose as I can think of. It's fast. It's fast on mobile. It's fast. It has really consistently interesting links. It has informed conversations that don't generally deteriorate into childish flamewars. It's hella fast.
- squeaky-clean 9y ago
  You actually can't delete your comments after an hour or so. Try going back through your profile and deleting any old comment.
  - digi_owl 9y ago
    And i kinda like it for it. Over at Reddit i have seen way too many that pop in, make some kind of comment, and then nuke either the comment or the whole account after a short while.
    - squeaky-clean 9y ago
      Likewise, I hate googling for a discussion or review and finding a thread half filled with "This user has deleted their comments with a greasemonkey script..." Besides, after an hour or so your comment is definitely already in Google and any HN crawlers, and probably on archive.org shortly after that.
alexandercrohde 9y ago
I have no idea what you're saying. You're arguing that because it is simply designed it's not brutalist? The whole definition of brutalism is minimal distraction/complexity. The least brutalist thing you could do would be notifications popping up in the lower right every time somebody responds to you, with a picture, their karma, etc. Deleting comments again, would be anti-brutalist. Aside - When I think of the most successful public forum for non-stupid discussion on the internet I think HN (unless you count wikipedia). We should ask ourselves what about this site (or was it the core audience) managed to create the impossible -- intelligent discussions on the internet.

christophilus 9y ago

You can easily see who responded to you by looking at your comments under your profile. I can delete my comments... not sure why you wouldn't be able to. I think HN is about as perfect a site for its purpose as I can think of. It's fast. It's fast on mobile. It's fast. It has really consistently interesting links. It has informed conversations that don't generally deteriorate into childish flamewars. It's hella fast.

squeaky-clean 9y ago
You actually can't delete your comments after an hour or so. Try going back through your profile and deleting any old comment.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  And i kinda like it for it. Over at Reddit i have seen way too many that pop in, make some kind of comment, and then nuke either the comment or the whole account after a short while.
  - squeaky-clean 9y ago
    Likewise, I hate googling for a discussion or review and finding a thread half filled with "This user has deleted their comments with a greasemonkey script..." Besides, after an hour or so your comment is definitely already in Google and any HN crawlers, and probably on archive.org shortly after that.

alexandercrohde 9y ago

I have no idea what you're saying. You're arguing that because it is simply designed it's not brutalist? The whole definition of brutalism is minimal distraction/complexity. The least brutalist thing you could do would be notifications popping up in the lower right every time somebody responds to you, with a picture, their karma, etc. Deleting comments again, would be anti-brutalist. Aside - When I think of the most successful public forum for non-stupid discussion on the internet I think HN (unless you count wikipedia). We should ask ourselves what about this site (or was it the core audience) managed to create the impossible -- intelligent discussions on the internet.