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There are so many HN front ends. It feels like a new one gets created every 6 months. Yet for all of its subjective “ugliness”, I still find the original HN sit
by hnlmorg 3y ago
There are so many HN front ends. It feels like a new one gets created every 6 months. Yet for all of its subjective “ugliness”, I still find the original HN site to be largely excellent enough already.
- macintux 3y agoI genuinely think the only thing I would change about HN would be the difficulty of voting on a touchscreen; the targets are too small. But, since it's easy to rectify after the fact, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- vardump 3y agoI just use the zoom feature. Although most of the time the target is large enough anyways.
- move-on-by 3y agoThe only thing I would change is adding a `manifest.json` so that I could treat it as an app instead of a website.
- jghn 3y agoYeah usually I find these things make HN worse and not better. I’ve never found one that raises beyond net neutral The one change I’d make is keeping track of what I’ve read or not in a thread. I understand that the lack of this feature is a conscious choice but I disagree. I use a browser plugin
- mattlondon 3y ago+1 Also accidentally clicking on flag or hide for the story above the one you are trying to tap!
- gumby 3y agoIs there any way to undo hide? You can unflag and undown, but if you accidentally hit hide, that’s it.
- genezeta 3y agoIn your profile, there's a "hidden" link to a list of the links you've hidden. You can unhide them. (Note that afaics if you don't have any hidden links, the "hidden" link in your profile won't appear. The link will be among the various "comments", "submissions", etc links in your profile.)
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoIs there a list somewhere? I'd like to filter based on the domain of the outgoing link.
- sokoloff 3y agoCouldn’t you catch the popular ones by looking in your logs for correlated bumps in traffic anytime you’re on the front page? If that’s not good enough, trawling through HN Algolia search is probably the best way, since they’re almost surely going to have been announced on HN.
- okasaki 3y agoYou can do that with a userscript, no need for an entire new client.