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HN is usable without JS, but is served with JS scripts by default.
by notRobot 3y ago
HN is usable without JS, but is served with JS scripts by default.
- consumer451 3y agoOh wow, I could have swore... thanks. Still though, just 4 pages of js. I guess what I was thinking is typical insane tracking framework and tracking stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
- sillysaurusx 3y agoIf only people would stop underestimating how hard those four pages of js are. If you study it carefully you’ll notice some real time reloading type stuff for /newest, because it’s so important for finding good stories when you’re wading through hundreds. You can just click hide and see the next story instead of having to go from one page to the next. The smallness is evidence of skill, not (merely) simplicity.
- consumer451 3y agoI was not trying to say it is simple, just that is very lightweight.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoSorry, I didn’t mean it quite so pointedly. :) I just hope the world appreciates lightweight again someday.
- consumer451 3y agoNo offense taken :) Another lightweight site I came across is Tildes. [0] it was created by Reddit’s 10th hire after he left. I think it was a response to the Reddit redesign. Do you have any favorites? [0] https://tildes.net https://tildes.net https://gitlab.com/tildes https://gitlab.com/tildes
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThank you! I didn’t realize tildes was open source. That’s really cool. One of my all time favorite examples of simple systems is Lumen, which was written by Scott Bell: https://github.com/sctb/lumen https://github.com/sctb/lumen It took years of study to understand just how large the ratio was of functionality vs size.