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Everytime an improvement to HN is posted here, I find it funny that HN is frequently cited on HN as an example of a perfect clean minimalist website when it lac
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Everytime an improvement to HN is posted here, I find it funny that HN is frequently cited on HN as an example of a perfect clean minimalist website when it lacks plenty of features.
Yes, a blank page is also very clean and minimalist. And useless.
P.S. I know that plenty of text-only websites load themselves with tons of useless media and needless JS. And yes that should be fixed. But the internet is more than just blogs.
- harigov 9y agoI second this. Forget fancy bells and whistles, this website is missing some very core and useful functionalities that aren't so hard to implement.
- singularity2001 9y agoI often wonder whether these basic features are missing intentionally for not so benign reasons
- acct1771 9y agoYes. Compare the speed and fury of flamewars on reddit when people are tossing orangereds back and forth. Yes, it's annoying to me to have to dig back through my profile (whichever it may be at the time) - but I find I will only do so when a topic is truly worth following up on - not simply to spite another stranger on the internet, which seemingly still goes on here to some extent regardless of the "feature".
- dang 9y agoI'm racking my brains trying to think of what those "not so benign" reasons might be. Can you share some?
- jbob2000 9y agoNo. This is a simple message board, a news aggregator. If you add features to make it more than that, it turns into a social network and all the drivel that comes with that.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoHN can choose to be whatever it wants, from a single page pure text website to a full-fledged OS in browser webapp. But comparisons need to be between peers. Praising HN's minimalism and clean look while comparing it with webapps is facile.
- tscs37 9y agoThe community seems content with fixing the issues through third party projects so far.