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Thank god there was a story about this. I'd never have realised. </sarcasm> Really - Does the front page need to be filled with this stuff? We're aware of it

Thank god there was a story about this. I'd never have realised. </sarcasm> Really - Does the front page need to be filled with this stuff? We're aware of it already. Is it really that exciting?

danssig 15y ago
Well, we are talking about potentially the end of the internet.
- leejw00t354 15y ago
  Even though it could mean the end of what we now call the internet I have to agree that having the front page covered with SOPA blackout pages is silly. People on HN are already aware of the risks this legislation brings. It's more important we make people who use the internet regularly but don't know much about the legislation aware of what's going on and what the problems are with it. These top news stories are likely news to only about 0.1% of HN.
  - sterling312 15y ago
    If the correlation between SOPA awareness and HN user is indeed 99.9%, we need to find a website that has close to 0%. cough MySpace cough Could this bring web attention back to the decaying social network? Stay tuned.
    - sterling312 15y ago
      I guess I really should stress my sarcasm more lol
fauldsh 15y ago
I've never seen a news post which exemplifies the idea that the comments can be worth more than the article. Obviously this isn't news to any-one here but it gives a place to discuss the changes.
joshmanders 15y ago
Karma++;
arthurgibson 15y ago
Yes it does need to be filled, for the journalist and tech writes who scour hacker news for their latest blog posts. Not too leave out the random person who discovers Hacker News today.
bdg 15y ago
Actually, I had no idea it was blacked out. I use a CSS reset to make the whole website green-on-black without images like it's an old mainframe system.
Ideka 15y ago
Well, some people use stuff like these http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/improve-hacker-news-ui/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/improve-hacker-news-ui/ or these http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

Thank god there was a story about this. I'd never have realised. </sarcasm> Really - Does the front page need to be filled with this stuff? We're aware of it already. Is it really that exciting?

danssig 15y ago

Well, we are talking about potentially the end of the internet.

leejw00t354 15y ago
Even though it could mean the end of what we now call the internet I have to agree that having the front page covered with SOPA blackout pages is silly. People on HN are already aware of the risks this legislation brings. It's more important we make people who use the internet regularly but don't know much about the legislation aware of what's going on and what the problems are with it. These top news stories are likely news to only about 0.1% of HN.
- sterling312 15y ago
  If the correlation between SOPA awareness and HN user is indeed 99.9%, we need to find a website that has close to 0%. cough MySpace cough Could this bring web attention back to the decaying social network? Stay tuned.
  - sterling312 15y ago
    I guess I really should stress my sarcasm more lol

fauldsh 15y ago

I've never seen a news post which exemplifies the idea that the comments can be worth more than the article. Obviously this isn't news to any-one here but it gives a place to discuss the changes.

joshmanders 15y ago

Karma++;

arthurgibson 15y ago

Yes it does need to be filled, for the journalist and tech writes who scour hacker news for their latest blog posts. Not too leave out the random person who discovers Hacker News today.

bdg 15y ago

Actually, I had no idea it was blacked out. I use a CSS reset to make the whole website green-on-black without images like it's an old mainframe system.

Ideka 15y ago

Well, some people use stuff like these http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/improve-hacker-news-ui/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/improve-hacker-news-ui/ or these http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...