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Browsing HN on lynx (not logged in, haven't figured out cookie jar, settings, etc) in the early morning, it was a completely different experience: a dark screen
by turtleyacht 4y ago
Browsing HN on lynx (not logged in, haven't figured out cookie jar, settings, etc) in the early morning, it was a completely different experience: a dark screen, monocolored text, and comments.
It felt like a darkened cafe of inquisitive, sometimes humorous--at turns indignant or snarky--conversation: even intimate, close-quarters, sipping at coffee or wine.
That's what I miss about HN's past feature: we can't browse to a segment of a day. The front page changes across twenty-four hours, an ebb and flow of ephemeral delights.
I guess that's what I'll set lynx with next: sessions, printing, and a way to quickly save snippets of text. The comments are so valuable for follow-up.
- dr_monster 4y agoIs there a way to collapse HN comments on lynx? I tried it but could not tell which comments were replies to others vs stand-alone comments.
- turtleyacht 4y agoThere may be a way to collapse comments, but I didn't try it yet. If there's no complete page refresh on click, it could be Javascript manipulating the DOM, and that may not work on lynx. I couldn't tell which are replies versus standalone, since everything is left-indented. However, some comments are definitely replies if there's ">" for example, or abbreviated and curt. But I found this "contextual friction" let me be more forgiving in a way. The comments all seem to float in the ether, utterances in the night. The extra effort to traverse to each comment--arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow--somehow made the whole thing like an exercise in deliberate consciousness: I was seeking after content, rather than having it just be laid out and scrollable. I was also using the framebuffer. It didn't take much to fill the screen. Moving to the next page happens more often and is so manual; you almost want to wring meaning out of every screen.