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This is all fantasy. PG runs this in his spare time off a single server. Every feature I saw on the list has viable workarounds. Yes, it'd be nice if they were
by tsm 14y ago
This is all fantasy. PG runs this in his spare time off a single server. Every feature I saw on the list has viable workarounds. Yes, it'd be nice if they were supported out of the box. But I don't think the lack of native features is negatively impacting the content of HN, which is the most important part.
So what's the argument of the site? "Hey PG, we know you're busy funding startups and stuff, but we're mildly inconvenienced by some UX decisions you've made with that experimental site you run on the side, and were hoping that you could take the time to implement these seemingly-minor features that've been discussed on HN for years. In exchange our happiness while using the site will be somewhat increased, and we will instead whine about HN's lack of modern CSS and Twitter Bootstrappiness and what have you."?
- sgdesign 14y agoI suggest you read the "About" section, it should answer your doubts.
- tsm 14y agoWhere? It talks about "improv[ing] Hacker News" by commenting and voting on HNW ideas--those aren't very concrete. It later admits that the chances of any of this making it into HN proper are "not very high". Half of the About section features the dev (righteously, I'm not complaining) advertising himself .
- sgdesign 14y agoYou asked "what's the argument of the site?". The About section makes it very clear that this is a fun side project built as a way to showcase what Telescope can do, and that I don't really expect these ideas to be implemented into the actual HN. You seem angry at something that HNWishlist isn't trying to be at all.
- jmduke 14y agoYes, PG would have to do all of this himself, because there's no way a hundred developers would leap at the chance to contribute to the HN source and make fellow developers happy.
- alaskamiller 14y agoYou actually described the reality very well despite your condescending sarcastic tone.
- jglovier 14y agoI would leap at the chance to contribute freely to the HN site to make fellow developers happy, yes.
- DanBC 14y agoIt gives people looking for a smaller project some ideas.