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Ugh... I know it's a site for programmers, but would it have broken the budget to hire a designer? I can't tell what anything is at first glance and it all loo
by tialys 18y ago
Ugh... I know it's a site for programmers, but would it have broken the budget to hire a designer? I can't tell what anything is at first glance and it all looks jumbled to me.
- adamc 18y agoHad exactly the same response.
- greyman 18y agoI think the design is OK.
- kylec 18y agoThey did: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-beta-design/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-beta-de...
- jrockway 18y agoYour dislike of the design does not necessarily mean that a designer was not consulted.
- tel 18y agoFeels like it does mean the designer did not do a good job since I'm sure much of the YC crowd is more or less the core audience for Stack Overflow.
- jrockway 18y agoAre you sure about that? I haven't asked a programming question (in public) for a number of years. I am too lazy to sit and wait for someone to tell me how to solve my problem when I could discover the solution on my own. I assume that most people here are like that. (Otherwise they would be on Reddit instead ;)
- michaelneale 18y agoyou mean impatient - not lazy?
- jrockway 18y agoNo, I meant lazy. Sitting around doing nothing would require a lot of mental effort and work. Thinking about programming would be relaxing and enjoyable.
- michaelneale 18y agoThat's a good point. I feel the same way, I just assumed everyone else enjoyed sitting around and doing nothing and there was something wrong for me. Glad I am not unusual. I have a lot of non-programming tasks lately, yet I find myself finding a small problem to hack around as "procrastination".
- tel 18y agoTrue, my comment was a bit quick off the block. I didn't mean to imply that the average HN user and the average web-forum-programmer were anything similar. Except, perhaps, aesthetically. Maybe I'm wrong here too, but a failed visual design for HN readers is probably a failed design for the average web-forum-programmer, too.
- d0mine 18y agoYou could ask question and answer it yourself. It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own programming question, but pretend you're on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question. </quote> http://stackoverflow.com/faq http://stackoverflow.com/faq If (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question.
- jrockway 18y agoIf (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question. I share my knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers at the 10 or so conferences I go to a year, and on my ad-free blog.