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One of the things HN gets right is in my opinion the classic basic design. I wish you would have recreated that.

trizoza 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The main reason why I went for the combination of pictures and text was that many car enthusiast like the visual aspect of cars and therefore I kept the images as well.
- systemvoltage 6y ago
  For what's its worth - Circular images are a fad created for avatars (pictures of people with their heads fitting inside the circle). You're showing images embedded in the article and IMO should be rectangular.
  - rabuse 6y ago
    I agree with this. Also, the page shouldn't be centered like that.
    - thinkloop 6y ago
      What's wrong with centered? Anyway it's not really centered, more left-justified with expanding left padding.
- GloriousKoji 6y ago
  I think the thumbnails add too much white space between headlines and doesn't actually show enough to be useful. Like if there's a press release of a new model or spy photos, I want to see all the pictures from all angles and not a zoomed in crop of a singular headlight. As of right now I'm only see 3 thumbnails of the top 10 with a picture of a vehicle. Also (old.)reddit already does the small thumbnail and headline thing. I like the hackernews layout for its information density.
spdionis 6y ago
I saw a loading spinner and immediately went back.
- trizoza 6y ago
  Sorry about that.
frozencell 6y ago
What is the classic design of automotive? That’s the question to ask IMO. Paul Graham wrote about automobile design in an essay.
- trizoza 6y ago
  Do you think you could find the essay? I'd love to read it
  - mod 6y ago
    Maybe this: http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html Or this: http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html
- elihu 6y ago
  He made a remark about SUVs when talking about programming languages; was that what you're referring to or was there something else? http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html > Some kinds of waste really are disgusting. SUVs, for example, would arguably be gross even if they ran on a fuel which would never run out and generated no pollution. SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.) But not all waste is bad. Now that we have the infrastructure to support it, counting the minutes of your long-distance calls starts to seem niggling. If you have the resources, it's more elegant to think of all phone calls as one kind of thing, no matter where the other person is. > > There's good waste, and bad waste. I'm interested in good waste-- the kind where, by spending more, we can get simpler designs. How will we take advantage of the opportunities to waste cycles that we'll get from new, faster hardware?
dt3ft 6y ago
I'd love to hear your thoughts on my design for 20-things.com. There is also a dark mode, based on browser/OS theme.

Thanks for the feedback. The main reason why I went for the combination of pictures and text was that many car enthusiast like the visual aspect of cars and therefore I kept the images as well.

systemvoltage 6y ago
For what's its worth - Circular images are a fad created for avatars (pictures of people with their heads fitting inside the circle). You're showing images embedded in the article and IMO should be rectangular.
- rabuse 6y ago
  I agree with this. Also, the page shouldn't be centered like that.
  - thinkloop 6y ago
    What's wrong with centered? Anyway it's not really centered, more left-justified with expanding left padding.
GloriousKoji 6y ago
I think the thumbnails add too much white space between headlines and doesn't actually show enough to be useful. Like if there's a press release of a new model or spy photos, I want to see all the pictures from all angles and not a zoomed in crop of a singular headlight. As of right now I'm only see 3 thumbnails of the top 10 with a picture of a vehicle. Also (old.)reddit already does the small thumbnail and headline thing. I like the hackernews layout for its information density.

spdionis 6y ago

I saw a loading spinner and immediately went back.

trizoza 6y ago
Sorry about that.

frozencell 6y ago

What is the classic design of automotive? That’s the question to ask IMO. Paul Graham wrote about automobile design in an essay.

trizoza 6y ago
Do you think you could find the essay? I'd love to read it
- mod 6y ago
  Maybe this: http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html Or this: http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html
elihu 6y ago
He made a remark about SUVs when talking about programming languages; was that what you're referring to or was there something else? http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html > Some kinds of waste really are disgusting. SUVs, for example, would arguably be gross even if they ran on a fuel which would never run out and generated no pollution. SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.) But not all waste is bad. Now that we have the infrastructure to support it, counting the minutes of your long-distance calls starts to seem niggling. If you have the resources, it's more elegant to think of all phone calls as one kind of thing, no matter where the other person is. > > There's good waste, and bad waste. I'm interested in good waste-- the kind where, by spending more, we can get simpler designs. How will we take advantage of the opportunities to waste cycles that we'll get from new, faster hardware?

dt3ft 6y ago

I'd love to hear your thoughts on my design for 20-things.com. There is also a dark mode, based on browser/OS theme.