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> No one is drawn to a particular website merely because of the stylesheet or UI I was. The minimalism of the site has always appealed to me. Internet forums
by gnode 8y ago
> No one is drawn to a particular website merely because of the stylesheet or UI
I was. The minimalism of the site has always appealed to me.
Internet forums are not only their content and community, but also their mechanics and their rules.
- krapp 8y agoBut if you had encountered the same community with the same level of discourse on a site with a modern layout, would that really have mattered?
- pixl97 8y agoIf the modern layout was slow, yes. There are a lot of sites with good content I don't visit. Much of the reason is they'll eat my mobile battery, data, or both. If I'm in a place with poor signal I can still browse HN in general. The snappyness and content keep me coming back.
- krapp 8y agoFair enough, but it seems what PG was describing was aesthetics, not necessarily performance.
- gnode 8y agoThat's a very hypothetical question. I think the architecture of a communal website shapes its community (after all, it exists before the community). The design decisions of HN are distinct from say, Reddit: the are no subreddits, comment karma isn't visible, stricter rules, etc. The less-is-more rationale attracts a certain kind of personality.