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Reddit's css file is 3559 lines long. HN's is 41.
http://ycombinator.com/news.css
- fmgg 16y agohttp://ycombinator.com/news.css http://ycombinator.com/news.css
- Dramatize 16y agoThere's a lot more to Reddit than HN.
- glasner 16y agoHacker News uses tables for layout vs CSS at Reddit. And of course, Hacker News isn't exactly styled.
- ConceitedCode 16y agoEven though there is a lot more to Reddit than Hacker News it is still interesting to see the difference.
- mikecarlton 16y agoIt's not very styled, but you can bet nobody spent days and days tweaking the css to get the layout to work with broken browsers (e.g. ie6)
- jedsmith 16y agoIs there a thesis here? I have no idea what you're trying to tell us. Hacker News isn't exactly Reddit...what are you comparing?
- fmgg 16y agoI'm not trying to give a "thesis", but I think it's interesting to compare the two. I realize there is much more to reddit, but 86 times more? And both sites pride themselves on a primarily functional design, but HN accomplishes this (better, in my opinion) in 41 lines of css. Remarkable.
- jedsmith 16y agoI'd counter that Reddit has grown over time, has a much wider readership, and probably cares about off-the-wall browsers and configurations more than Hacker News does. Reddit also looks pretty good on my iPhone, and HN does not. What I don't get is HN's fascination with comparisons to Reddit, and your post is going to suffer from that.
- bkrausz 16y agoMore interestingly: reddit doesn't minify their CSS. Easy 2kb savings, even with gzipping (I used YUI to minify): 78K reddit.css 68K reddit.min.css 16K reddit.css.gz 14K reddit.min.css.gz