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Why doesn't Hacker News have images to give more context? Does it need it?
UI design question. Most social media websites do.
- theandrewbailey 4y agoHN is all about sharing articles and talking about them. Images should be left to the articles. If in the rare case images are needed to get a point across, links to other sites (and existing image sharing services) suffice.
- SOTGO 4y agoFor one images would put even more strain on the server (servers?) that HN runs on. Also, I fear that it would reduce the quality of the discussion, as at least on reddit, image posts seem to lead to repetitive and unproductive discussion.
- minimaxir 4y agoImages/cards on link aggregators are primarily about maximizing clickthrough rate and/or time on site, which HN does not need to do.
- gus_massa 4y agoProbably to discourage reaction, to increase the signal to noise ratio. In cases it's 100% necessary you can use asciiart or a link to imgur or something.
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- EGKW 4y agoNo, please no. Rather than 'giving more context' images (or thumbnails FTM) would just distract from the subject given in title. I'm 15YO on Reddit and I still use the <old.reddit> interface.