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The current HTML/CSS of HN acts as an API for third-party services and apps that depend on HN's data. If you change this API, you break all these services. So
by sktrdie 14y ago
The current HTML/CSS of HN acts as an API for third-party services and apps that depend on HN's data. If you change this API, you break all these services.
So in my opinion, it's not worth the change.
- robin_reala 14y agoScraping a rendered HTML view ≠ a stable API in any sense of the word.
- sktrdie 14y agoWhy? What's your argument?