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The website is made to show you how much time you have left, to highlight that time is precious. To get this reminder, you have to enter your date through a dat
by Zababa 5y ago
The website is made to show you how much time you have left, to highlight that time is precious. To get this reminder, you have to enter your date through a date picker. This date picker is cumbersome, and makes you waste time. I think this is not a tangential annoyance, but a central one. Those two things are in opposition, and this detracts a lot from the message of this website. If time is so precious, why is my time wasted by an unknown file picker with a foreign interface?
- dang 5y agoYou have a point, but it's still pretty tangential at a macro level. The main macro-level thing is that the thread at the top of a page should be responding to the core of the story—or on rare occasions, be something surprising and even more interesting than the story. The UX of a date picker on the page doesn't clear that bar. That doesn't mean it's unimportant, just that the top of an HN page is not the appropriate context for it. Unless, of course, the story is about the UX of date pickers!
- Zababa 5y agoThat's fair, thanks for the clarification. Would that clear the bar if that post was a Show HN? I feel like one of the problem here is that the author isn't here to listen to the feedback anyways, so anything that is "feedback" isn't very interesting.