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Both examples kinda sound like an anti-feature. > had hackernews been written with a frontend framework, then i could click reply and submit without internet a

by graynk 2y ago

Both examples kinda sound like an anti-feature. > had hackernews been written with a frontend framework, then i could click reply and submit without internet access, and the page could store my comment until internet is back and send it without me having to babysit it. Which websites do this? I have never seen nor would expect such a behaviour. Would you expect it to still post if you close the tab? What if you close the tab, but open some other page on HN? Would you expect to see it in your profile? > even just plain reading would would be better. with js new comments could be loaded in the background and they could be added to the page and marked as new without reloading the whole page. a much smoother experience than having to wait for a reload. So when you’re on a slow (and possibly traffic-limited) connection you would want the site to hog the channel with update-fetching? Loading the new comments, shifting everything as you read it? This might be OK for linear flat comments, but for discussion trees this just sounds like a nightmare, again - who does this?

em-bee 2y ago
new comments don't need to appear automatically, they just could be preloaded so when i click to see them, they appear instantly. if you have a fast connection then it is hard to imagine how grating it is that every click takes a second or two to resolve. i hate waiting for stuff to load. when reading hackernews i frequently reload the page to get the new comments. and that always takes more time than i am comfortable with. it takes long enough for me to often end up focusing on something else. preloading comments does not take much bandwidth. less than reloading the whole page. even if i end up not reading the new ones. and it doesn't have to happen more than once a minute. maybe even less. stackoverflow is another example that could be improved. it hides some of the comments under each answer, and when i click to reveal them it takes 1-2 seconds for them to show up. i don't know why they do that. they could load all the comments at once and hide some of them so that they'll show up instantly when i click.

by graynk 2y ago

em-bee 2y ago

new comments don't need to appear automatically, they just could be preloaded so when i click to see them, they appear instantly. if you have a fast connection then it is hard to imagine how grating it is that every click takes a second or two to resolve. i hate waiting for stuff to load. when reading hackernews i frequently reload the page to get the new comments. and that always takes more time than i am comfortable with. it takes long enough for me to often end up focusing on something else. preloading comments does not take much bandwidth. less than reloading the whole page. even if i end up not reading the new ones. and it doesn't have to happen more than once a minute. maybe even less. stackoverflow is another example that could be improved. it hides some of the comments under each answer, and when i click to reveal them it takes 1-2 seconds for them to show up. i don't know why they do that. they could load all the comments at once and hide some of them so that they'll show up instantly when i click.