No. Well, maybe, but if anything i think that it's in spite of the UI/UX. The UI/UX is pretty bad on mobile, which is the majority of internet traffic (no idea

No. Well, maybe, but if anything i think that it's in spite of the UI/UX. The UI/UX is pretty bad on mobile, which is the majority of internet traffic (no idea about HN specifically, it probably isn't because it's just annoying) with the small buttons. I'm also not a fan of the POST redirects for basic things we have had AJAX for for literally more than a decade, but I'm probably in a minority here. I really don't think the 0.5s saved by not having the JS code for that are worth the back and forth blocking POSTs. The lack of dark mode is another annoyance. And the part which is the saddest, IMHO, is that if the code were open source, there'd be a PR/MR within minutes fixing each of those problems. If it were a commercial site, they would have already added those feature for growth and etc. But it's neither, so it lingers.