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Some things have taken us 15 years and then pow they happened

by dang 7mo ago

Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
Dang your comment excites me to think that Hackernews can have dark mode in future. Aside from all of this AI hype, This is the feature I am most excited about xD! Dang, genuine question but when you moderate/view Hackernews yourself, I suppose that you must yourself be using dark mode too correct? or do you view hackernews in light-mode?
- robin_reala 7mo ago
  Out of interest, why do you suppose that?
  - deleted 7mo ago
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  - Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
    Oh, I had thought that when dang said somethings took 15 years and pow they happened, maybe my interpretation was that dark mode is definitely something which can occur within the future in a similar fashion.
    - altairprime 7mo ago
      That’s the interpretation I took away as well.
- dang 7mo ago
  Although I did just confess* to enjoying accoutrements which for years have been selfishly withheld from others (bare-bones UI for thee but not for me), dark mode is not one of them. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696183
keizo 7mo ago
dang, i pitched this on reddit like 20 years ago. I've always wanted to know what putting the new page on the front page would do to content quality. Something like this https://keizo.github.io/hackernews/ https://keizo.github.io/hackernews/
- dang 7mo ago
  We tried a variant of that once and it failed hard, because people have strongly different emotional responses to the front page vs. the newest page. Mixing the two produced a strong aversion.
  - keizo 7mo ago
    Interesting! Like less overall engagement? Was it fully mixed or in distinct columns. I feel like it makes a difference. I would at least interact with the new content if it was on the page. Vs almost never now. I assume people that are active on the new page must be 1% of users or mostly those directly involved with the story. Anyway, thanks for the response and keep the place sane.
    - dang 7mo ago
      Here's a previous explanation (sorry for the gross analogy!) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 It was mixed in, which probably made it worse.

Some things have taken us 15 years and then pow they happened

by dang 7mo ago

Some things have taken us 15 years and then pow they happened

Dang your comment excites me to think that Hackernews can have dark mode in future. Aside from all of this AI hype, This is the feature I am most excited about xD! Dang, genuine question but when you moderate/view Hackernews yourself, I suppose that you must yourself be using dark mode too correct? or do you view hackernews in light-mode?

robin_reala 7mo ago
Out of interest, why do you suppose that?
- deleted 7mo ago
  [deleted]
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
  Oh, I had thought that when dang said somethings took 15 years and pow they happened, maybe my interpretation was that dark mode is definitely something which can occur within the future in a similar fashion.
  - altairprime 7mo ago
    That’s the interpretation I took away as well.
dang 7mo ago
Although I did just confess* to enjoying accoutrements which for years have been selfishly withheld from others (bare-bones UI for thee but not for me), dark mode is not one of them. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696183

keizo 7mo ago

dang, i pitched this on reddit like 20 years ago. I've always wanted to know what putting the new page on the front page would do to content quality. Something like this https://keizo.github.io/hackernews/ https://keizo.github.io/hackernews/

dang 7mo ago
We tried a variant of that once and it failed hard, because people have strongly different emotional responses to the front page vs. the newest page. Mixing the two produced a strong aversion.
- keizo 7mo ago
  Interesting! Like less overall engagement? Was it fully mixed or in distinct columns. I feel like it makes a difference. I would at least interact with the new content if it was on the page. Vs almost never now. I assume people that are active on the new page must be 1% of users or mostly those directly involved with the story. Anyway, thanks for the response and keep the place sane.
  - dang 7mo ago
    Here's a previous explanation (sorry for the gross analogy!) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000504 It was mixed in, which probably made it worse.