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I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(
by jug6ernaut 14y ago
I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?
Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.
- mturmon 14y agoIf you have to ask, you aren't ever going to know.
- thetrumanshow 14y agoFor me its solidarity. That, and I just want to be a part of it, regardless of who else knows about it.
- jug6ernaut 14y agoAbsolutely, i do also. But if its a HN Tee, should it be recognizable to those who frequent HN? @mayank same applies, inside joke to who? Those who where told it was a HN Tee or the HN community?(assuming its not recognizable to them).
- thetrumanshow 14y agoI think you and I just might disagree on how recognizable this is, but its beside my point. I get some utility out of the thing, and I get to contribute to something that the community would like to see become successful. I don't normally donate at the drop of a hat, but pg has thus far very carefully tended this community without asking much directly from it. Its a no-brainer. If HN becomes a Kickstarter for non-profits, eh, I become much less interested then. Oh, and if someone happens to ask me what the shirt is about, I probably would say "Ah, its a novelty shirt I bought from this geeky website you probably wouldn't care much about." Because I tend to think the community benefits from being careful who gets involved in it. {sigh} I typed that, and its probably flame-war inducing, but I do feel that way.
- jug6ernaut 14y agoAh, well my comment was prominently about its recognizability/design. To your post though i pretty much agree with you 100%.
- mayank 14y agoI think the inside joke is kind of the point.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI agree. I like it. It's absent of words, which always adds a cheesy factor to clothes, in my opinion. and it's not an in-your-face look at me I'm a tourist t-shirt with a big HN on the front. That you would have to explain to your grandma. not cool. It's just a shirt with a simple "design", that no outsider would consider twice or bother to ask about. So you can wear it in public. I think it's very classily done. I just wish I could see what the slate grey one looked like before ordering.
- gknoy 14y agoThank you for the explanation. I was surprised to see the colored bars, rather than the [Y] icon which I'm so accustomed to seeing on the favorite icon, but that makes it slightly more appealing than it was before.
- alexakarpov 14y agocouldn't say it better!
- tokipin 14y agoExactly.
- minopret 14y agoThanks for explaining. I did not know that only an inside joke is appropriate to the spirit of HN. OK.
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- lancefisher 14y agoYou can write your own username in with a sharpie. :) I would recognize this for the colors and shape. I do wish it came on a light-color T though.
- wiwillia 14y agoHi lance, we just added a grey option on checkout!
- mintplant 14y agoIs there a way to see a preview of what the grey option would look like?
- jwb119 14y agoAny way for people who have already ordered to change colors?
- wiwillia 14y agoI can set that up for you - shoot me an email at walker@teespring.com!
- crasshopper 14y agoYes. Look for your username in the top right corner of the T-shirt. It should be to the left of the word "logout" if you're logged in—or if you're not logged in, you'll see in the top right the option to do so. Clicking on your username brings up a profile with forms you can fill in. Second option from the bottom is called "topcolors". You'll need to look up the Hex code for the colour you want (for example http://www.colorhexa.com/ee33aa http://www.colorhexa.com/ee33aa). ::starts swiping fingers on a printed page to zoom in the text:: Hey, what the heck is wrong with this thing?
- mnicole 14y agoI love this option; the ability to be my own downvoted comment.
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- grey-area 14y agoI don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? I agree. It's missing a first post at the top saying 'this article is pointless' ;)
- waxjar 14y agoI think the reasoning behind it is that people might not want to walk around with "Hacker News" on a t-shirt.
- xauronx 14y ago"Hacker huh? So like, my facebook totally got hacked because someone knew my password was hunter2... can you hack them back?"
- rhizome 14y agoI don't understand the problem here, it signifies a subculture. Maybe the issue is that it's not a good advertising vehicle?
- pg 14y agoI kind of wish this were the top comment. It would be humorously appropriate if the top comment on the thread about the official HN t-shirt were the traditional nitpicking/point-missing type that is so commonly the top comment when people launch new technology here.
- nicholassmith 14y agoI'm sure after people see this it'll be voted into the stratosphere.
- shill 14y agoI read HN nitpicking posts in the voice of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. "Why are you using American Apparel for a multi-threaded shirt and not Erlang?"
- kreek 14y agoToo funny, and I agree HN can be a bit predictable at times.
- Aloha 14y agoI dont think its nitpicking I would never recognize it unless I also owned the shirt, and knew what it was.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoI agree. So I made an alternative shirt. This one has no logo either, but it should be more recognizable: http://teespring.com/althntees http://teespring.com/althntees (It even has a crude joke, there's 'More' below the waist)
- lionhearted 14y agoDoes that sort of thing bug you on some level Paul? I always had you mentally as pretty stoically philosophically detached from that sort of thing. But I've seen a couple of your comments where you seem genuinely bothered when people are catty or mean to others you care about. Would love to hear your take on how you mentally approach that sort of thing in general.
- shin_lao 14y agoYou're saying that because it doesn't show your karma points.
- kyro 14y agoI agree. Although the symmetry of the design is inline with the tennets of Minimalism, it unfortunately makes for a piece that lacks movement and vitality. You definitely won't be seeing me walking through the West Village with that monstrosity plastered on my chest.
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- huskyr 14y agoI really like this design. It's a minimal design that is interesting for people who don't know the site, and a nice in-joke for people who do know the site. A lot better than most of the standard 'nerdy' shirts, like this one: http://cdn4.desizntech.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/55994406v4_350x350_front.jpg http://cdn4.desizntech.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/55994...
- jaytaylor 14y agoI don't know.. that shirt is so cliché it's funny!
- nashequilibrium 14y agoBack to the topic: I agree with your assessment, since I was excited when I saw the link but when I saw the t-shirt I also felt that the design was to minimal and vague. I do believe that this is easy to fix, just add the hackernews headings to the orange part and you have a cool minimal design which is not vague.
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- danielrhodes 14y agoI think the point of the shirt is that it means something to those who visit HN, in the same way that the Eye of Providence means something to Free Masons.
- angryasian 14y agoas a hn reader and user, if i didn't see this post I would have never guess it was associated with HN. Looks like two horizontal stripes.
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- joeblau 14y agoPut this comment on the shirt and I'll buy it.
- elorant 14y agoIf you want to wear something recognizable by everyone try a Lacoste polo. There's nothing to miss or some hidden meaning. It's just a freaking t-shirt and that's all there is.
- at-fates-hands 14y agoI didn't get it either. I actually thought it was some kind of joke. Hell, from 20 yards you couldn't even see the graphic. When I saw the title, I thought, "Cool, a t-shirt with a large Y in a box on it." If you know the logo, you know. If not, it's easy to explain. I'm still trying to figure out how I would explain this to someone.
- iEricAllen 14y agoI think that's the point of the T. There is a bit of irony in buying something that only a select few will understand. I personally would buy this T specifically for this reason.
- lurchpop 14y agoIf I saw this on the street I would have no idea it had anything to do with HN.
- readme 14y agoThe real problem is that HN needs a mascot... How about a little alien?
- anigbrowl 14y agowould someone who frequents HN recognize it I think so. The color scheme is unusual and distintive. OK, I've been here a long time and HN is permanently open in a browser tab so maybe I should get out more. The only flaw with the design I see is that folks like myself may have to suppress the instinct to mash the F5 button when they see someone wearing this...
- solistice 14y agoOnly one browser tab?
- natural219 14y agoMy ctrl+F is not turning up any results for Poe's Law. I cannot tell if this is one big reddit inside joke or if everybody in this thread is actually serious. It's like an infinite loop of sarcasm and irony.
- zura 14y agoYes, and not everyone uses orange top color anyway.
- RaSoJo 14y agoI guess people who frequent HN have noticed this post...and your comment by now. Hence we can rest easy on the recognition factor :)