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Fairly satisfied with HN as is. The minimal medium makes for more signal, less noise. not no noise, that's impossible. (there is no spoon) Can list lots of thi
by h2odragon 3y ago
Fairly satisfied with HN as is. The minimal medium makes for more signal, less noise. not no noise, that's impossible. (there is no spoon)
Can list lots of things that I think would be bad. Animated GIF user avatar images. inline images. Cryptocurrency schemes and "realtime chat" systems.
ooo. almost forgot: dedicated proprietary client. screw this "open web" stuff, lets add some encryption to nntp and charge $15/mo for a reskinned newsreader app to access it with! We can compile it to webasm and run it in electron on phones!
- mdwalters 3y agoYou're joking about the last part... Right?
- jaredsohn 3y agoalso instead of showing a list of all the stories on the front page, show one story at a time and build an algorithm that indicates which story gets shown next. /s
- version_five 3y agoThere's a great opportunity for someone to make a satirical "modernized" HN page with all the worst features of the modern web.