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> StackOverflow also has an extremely busy design, and it seems to work. People often make the argument about HN being ugly and hard-to-use vs. those who think
by mnicole 14y ago
> StackOverflow also has an extremely busy design, and it seems to work.
People often make the argument about HN being ugly and hard-to-use vs. those who think it is perfect for what it does (even saying that making it simpler would make it too easy for non-technical people to get involved, which always confused me). Personally, I think all three of these services could be much cleaner and user-friendly without Fisher-Pricing it.
- lutusp 14y ago> This is a similar to the argument people make about HN being ugly and hard-to-use vs. those who think it is perfect for what it does. Apropos, my favorite suggestion for improvement in HN would be a menu item that lists direct replies to one's posts (something that Reddit does). Without this feature, some HN threads just expire because it becomes too difficult to follow them as time passes.
- scott_s 14y agoThe "threads" link at the top is a decent approximation.
- lutusp 14y agoYes, for my posts, but not so effective for replies to them, especially those older than 24 hours.
- maxerickson 14y agoHere's a bookmarklet that might help some: https://gist.github.com/maxerickson/4718499 https://gist.github.com/maxerickson/4718499 It turns the time stamps on a Hacker News comment page into buttons that hide/show comments that are the same age or older than the clicked time stamp. It works on the threads page. There are probably some bugs, but it mostly works fine.
- hollerith 14y agoI use HN Notify: it sends me an email notification every time someone replies to one of my submissions or comments. http://hnnotify.com/ http://hnnotify.com/
- mnicole 14y agoAnd now I can't reply to scott_s's reply (another weird quirk that I don't understand, since it doesn't seem to be tied to how nested the comment is), but even something as simple as renaming those links would help people ('threads' to 'your comments' and 'comments' to 'recent comments'). Edit: Now the reply link shows up. What's with the timer?
- steveklabnik 14y ago> And now I can't reply to scott_s's reply (another weird quirk that I don't understand, since it doesn't seem to be tied to how nested the comment is), It's based on time. You can't reply immediately, you have to let some time pass. The idea is that it stops a conversation, a quick back and forth, and forces it to take a while, which should in theory encouraged more reasonable responses.
- mnicole 14y agoDoes it, though? ;)