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HN without people contributing relevant things would suck. I get it, they have some idealized idea of what they want the internet to be and how people should i
by keithnz 5y ago
HN without people contributing relevant things would suck. I get it, they have some idealized idea of what they want the internet to be and how people should interact, how information should be shared, blah blah. But the places and culture that end up encouraging people to contribute can be quite different from this "ideal", and sure it has flaws, and sure we can try and do things to improve things, but I kind of don't care, I like finding places on the internet that have people who love contributing, that something about that wee corner of the internet does a better job of creating that kind of culture than other corners.
- MikusR 5y agoYou can read comments on HN without logging in or using an app.
- mynameismon 5y agoSo with Reddit. What is your point?
- jeroenhd 5y agoWith Reddit you can either read half the comments, the top three comments, or sometimes nothing, because "this community is available in the app" or "log in to read the rest of the discussion" or whatever other flavour of user hostile design the company put out this week. For some obscure reason it's also terribly slow on my desktop even if I'm logged in. It's a terrible experience all around. And no, I don't want to manually change the URL or install some third party add-on to fix their intentionally broken website.
- veltas 5y agoChange the "www" in URL to "old". The redesign is awful.
- NavinF 5y agoDepends on what side of the AB test you’re on. If you clear your cookies, you’ll find that the default web interface forces you to login after a random delay or after a few clicks.
- MikusR 5y agoThe subreddits i use you can't. For example /r/programming
- blinzy 5y agoWhat? That's not my experience at all; from my desktop, tablet, and/or mobile phone browser I can access all subreddits I'm interested in without having to be logged in, including the one you mentioned, /r/programming but also all of these: android, askhistorians, biochemistry, c_programming, chemistry, compsci, design, embedded, freebsd, golang, haskell, java, javascript, linguistics, linux, math, mechanical_gifs, openbsd, physics, python, raspberry_pi, rust, statistics, sysadmin, vim, web_design ... and many more. so not sure what you're doing to not be able to access said subreddit while being logged out.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoRelevant things can be posted in the form of a link to the said relevant thing if it's longer than a paragraph. It's the POSSE principle https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE