It's effective. Also a lot of us are using it on mobile, where every element detracts from functionality. I love animations and stuff. I wouldn't mind if HN ha

It's effective. Also a lot of us are using it on mobile, where every element detracts from functionality. I love animations and stuff. I wouldn't mind if HN had a few. But awards would make it worse. Avatars would make it worse (people are judged by what they say, not who they are). There's not a lot of visual improvements needed, besides making this comment box a little bigger on mobile. CLI is very powerful if you know what you're doing. It can be muscle memory to search for a file, open, edit, and upload it. You don't get that kind of power with a GUI.