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HN feels like email groups. Lots of useful discussions but isn't very accessible to a younger audience.
by _spl 2y ago
HN feels like email groups. Lots of useful discussions but isn't very accessible to a younger audience.
- teitoklien 2y agoI’m 21, have been following HN since I was 18, from Asia. HN is perfectly accessible for younger folks, if you make it more accessible for casual unserious people, you’ll start getting more and more casual and unserious conversation. The UI is a good filter to remove folks who need hipster UI to just use a platform. HN is fine.
- sofixa 2y agoThere is hipster UI, and there's not handling pagination, having buttons bordering on the unusable on mobile, commenting requiring a new page to be opened, etc.
- throw151123 2y agoCome on, the UI is pretty usable even in mobile. It's a lot faster than most bloated social media apps.
- ineedaj0b 2y agoi complained of this but finally bought a larger phone and it fixed most of my complaints. i was using an iphone 4 till last year
- skydhash 2y agoI have a 11 inch tablet for HN casual reading. And I moved over to the laptop for serious discussions. My phone is for checking only because it’s always near.
- fragmede 2y agothankfully, due to the simplicity of this site, it's easily parsable, and Daniel Wu made an iOS app which addresses some of those issues, called Octal. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id1308885491 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...