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I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actua
by chuck32 9y ago
I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous.
- There is no search function anywhere
- Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15 https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15
- To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have to go through the FAQs?!
- Update a comment and you get redirected to the same form with no message.
I really don't get why a site who's target audiance is web developers and hackers has such terrible functionality on their site. Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?
- krapp 9y ago> Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface? It would certainly raise the bar for entry if HN just offered an undocumented API and required users to write their own clients for it.
- chuck32 9y agoTrue, but it would also perpetuate the stereotype of developers and techies as being a closed community of pretentious nerds.
- DanBC 9y ago> - There is no search function anywhere The bottom.of most pages has a search box. Most people here will be able.to use DDG or Bing or Google to search the site.
- chuck32 9y agoI stand corrected.