Whenever I'm faced with something like this, I remind myself of the essential question to ask when deciding how to prioritise work on a content site: How will

Whenever I'm faced with something like this, I remind myself of the essential question to ask when deciding how to prioritise work on a content site: How will this affect advertising revenue? Having a design HN hates may correlate with losing significant numbers of users and therefore revenue over time ... but then again it may not, and there's always the opportunity cost quesstion when deciding how to calibrate "significant numbers".