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New Y Combinator Website
- jwblackwell 12y agoLooks great! Good work.
- cpach 12y agoVery nice! It has a modern feel and stands out from the average.
- infinitebattery 12y agoI love the new look! A much better, refreshed design that was needed.
- curiouslurker 12y agoLooks good. I was half expecting to see the hipster design that everyone and their cousin seems to be using! I'm glad they chose better!
- fdej 12y agoI was fully expecting the infinitely annoying background-photo-that-changes-when-you-scroll gimmick. Such a pleasant surprise.
- dm2 12y agoWhere can I view a list of all of the past and current startups, their funding, their performance, their current status/worth, current employees, and links to their website in a nice sortable table? Also, what would it take to get a page of old articles that I didn't view that might be interesting to me based on my previous article upvotes? That would be valuable. The admin screenshot had several articles from a few months ago that I never saw and the only way for me to see them would be to manually search.
- minimaxir 12y agoIf you've ever wondered what Hacker News looks like to a moderator, now's your chance. http://www.ycombinator.com/images/home/HackerNews.png http://www.ycombinator.com/images/home/HackerNews.png
- wgx 12y agoKill | blast | nuke
- angersock 12y agoOne wonders what the difference in behaviors these have is?
- dm2 12y agoProbably kill = hide from front page, blast = hide from all, and nuke = delete from database (maybe soft-delete). Pure speculation though.
- iancarroll 12y agoKill makes it dead, blast makes it trend down the front page fast, nuke is delete/hide. So I believe.
- dm2 12y agoWhat does "dead" mean?
- aroch 12y ago"dead" on HN is like locking and hiding a thread -- no more voting or commenting and the thread disappears.
- kyrra 12y agodead posts are hidden by default. I believe once you have enough kamra there is a "showdead" option you can enable in your preferences. Dead posts/comments will be marked as [dead], but you can at least still see them.
- sama 12y agokevin is basically just unbelievably good at everything.
- zt 12y agoYes! Kevin is amazing. He gave me a sneak peak of the design last week, but it's really amazing. I love all the wonderfully thought out but small details, like how good the FAQ page is.
- zmitri 12y agoYeah I agree. The FAQ page is a huge win. All of the content is super useful and I only ever found it before from pecking around.
- larrys 12y agoThe "partners" page doesn't mention the founders of YC or differentiate them from the other partners. Obviously there was a reason for this. Can you elaborate? http://www.ycombinator.com/partners/ http://www.ycombinator.com/partners/
- amirmc 12y agoProbably because it shouldn't matter. Labelling some of the Partners as 'Founders' would be akin to saying they're 'more equal' than the others. Besides that, everyone here probably knows who they are anyway (or can trivially find out).
- misslivirose 12y agoGreat refresh - clean and crisp. The 'Blog' section looks a bit out of place on the home page with the white background and blue text, but other than that I think the new design suits YC well.
- pyfish 12y agoSuper clean, Super cool, super intuitive. Thanks!
- Aaronn 12y agoThe white on the left side is a bug right? http://inft.ly/WZPr4sk http://inft.ly/WZPr4sk
- dm2 12y agoThat's a feature! Probably so that there can be a 13px right border when there is no scrollbar and the left border makes it not look weird. The right border would be to prevent the page from "jumping" when the scrollbar goes from visible to not visible.
- Tarang 12y agoIts actually a deliberate 13px border, I initially thought it was a margin caused by a chrome extension. I guess it makes it feel a bit more like the news page
- sbov 12y agoWith that there the page centers in my browser window with the scrollbar. Maybe that's why. But I'm not sure if it does the same on every platform.
- jason_slack 12y agoWhat's the tech stack for the new website?
- joeblau 12y ago> paulg: @joe_blau www is just static html. You're probably thinking of news, which didn't change. - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/484028786120216576 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/484028786120216576
- kevin 12y agoI use http://middlemanapp.com http://middlemanapp.com to generate the static site.
- kogir 12y agoAnd it's hosted from an S3 bucket with CloudFront.
- harryzhang 12y agoLooks great Kevin!
- talles 12y ago"If what you see makes you worried for Hacker News, I want you to know that I have very different design goals for HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960105)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960105)"
- read 12y agoI am worried for Hacker News. One of my mottoes is that if you want to get unusual results, work fast and work cheap, because there's more of a chance that you'll get somewhere that nobody else did. Nearly always, the effect of spending a lot of money is to make things more normal. - Brian Eno
- chacham15 12y agoAm I the only one who sat there and watched the entire slideshow thinking: "I wish there were captions to all these pictures"?
- kevin 12y agoNo. Kat and I working to add captions to them. We'll probably add them to the gallery page: http://www.ycombinator.com/gallery/ http://www.ycombinator.com/gallery/
- colinramsay 12y agoLooks like the images only get loaded as you scroll down, which is a good feature that more sites should do. Seems like there's a fair amount of JavaScript being loaded here, I wonder what non-obvious stuff is happening?
- mercer 12y agoYeah, I've started using the 'load on demand' approach by default, unless the images are important. It can drastically improve load speed in a very simple way.
- mikeg8 12y agoDo you have any resources you'd recommend to get started learning this? It's a nice feature and I noticed it when the new YC page first loaded but have never investigated it myself.
- mercer 12y agoThere are probably jQuery plugins for 'lazy loading' images, but if you're familiar with javascript, and especially if you're using jQuery too, it's not too difficult to write a bit of code that takes care of this. The nice thing is that you can then combine this with responsive image loading (i.e. big images for desktop, small for mobile). I've agonized over the different solutions and concluded that, in most cases, a js-based solution to the image loading problem is the best (although I'm open to other opinions!). What it boils down to is this: - use markup that are either just divs with data-attributes, or image tags with the low-res images (if images are important for SEO or whatnot). - detect the device type or screen size - use javascript to calculate if the element is in view (usually calculating the image's offset from the top of the page is enough, since most sites are, uh, vertically-inclined) - load the appropriate image from the data-attribute with javascript if the image is visible. If you use placeholder images initially, I've noticed that the effect can actually look better than just showing the images right away. There's something about the images popping into view that makes the page feel more alive. For specific resources, I'd search 'check if image is visible' (with or without jQuery). You'll probably find some plugins or some code that might show how to do this. Feel free to approach me if you can't work it out.
- zmitri 12y agoDo I get to be as brutal as Kevin giving design feedback on the new site? :) The JS affix doesn't trigger off at the bottom so the sticky nav stays fixed http://i.imgur.com/YAqGVoL.png http://i.imgur.com/YAqGVoL.png Mixpanel's logo is forced display:none; on the homepage so it offsets the grid http://i.imgur.com/SV2dLq8.png http://i.imgur.com/SV2dLq8.png Overall this redesign is absolutely fantastic. PS. Did the valuation required to get on the homepage go up a bit?
- jasonlfunk 12y agoHow about a mobile friendly version of HN? :)
- Applico 12y agoyes please!
- kevin 12y agoWe're working on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960105
- doczoidberg 12y agoThere are good android apps for HN
- dublinben 12y agoAre there? I've tried HN and HNdroid, and neither allow you to leave comments. HN in particular fails to load comment pages where you have a comment.
- icebraining 12y ago
- jeswin 12y agoMinor nitpick. I didn't like the alignment of the YC logos on the top and bottom. They look a little misaligned. Maybe something like this is better ?: http://i.imgur.com/J1mzwJk.png http://i.imgur.com/J1mzwJk.png (Removed all content except top and bottom)
- kevin 12y agoThe site is designed on a 9 column grid. The YC logo gets its own column. I also use that column for side notes on the left side.
- SoftwareMaven 12y agoBut the logo at the top of the page looks left-aligned in the column, while the logo at the bottom of the page looks right-aligned (honestly, I wouldn't have noticed if my GP hadn't brought it up :). The one thing I did notice, though, is there are no titles on the anchor tags for the YC funded companies' icons. Some of them don't have their company names in the icons, and needing to enable the status bar to look at the URLs to get the names via the URLs is more work than a lazy person like myself likes to do. Seriously, though, great work. Looks really good!
- kevin 12y agoThe alignment I should fix. Thanks for catching that.
- par 12y agoconnection is timing out for me.
- Applico 12y agoLooks great, well done to your team!
- aikah 12y agoNice, in my opinion,Sans is better for Titles,and a serif font is better for the body of an article. Also either push the header to the left,or align the left column with the top of the header,because right now the layout looks unbalanced. EDIT : In my opinion the left column is unnecessary.The site could work with 1 column,and the content of the left column could either be push in the header or a footer. Just my 2 cents ;) Nice Job again,it's responsive !
- RussianCow 12y agoI personally find serif harder to read as a body font on web pages, so I think their combo is fine. My gripe with the layout is that it's aligned to the left, so with my high-resolution monitor there is a ton of white space on the right side.
- kevin 12y agoAre you seeing Serifs for Titles? Should be all san-serif. If so, can you send me a screenshot and browser you're using?
- RussianCow 12y agoHere's how it looks for me: http://cl.ly/image/1M04253f2w2n http://cl.ly/image/1M04253f2w2n
- thegeomaster 12y agoI think sans-serifs are better for small body text because of the limited amount of available pixels, especially ones that are created with screens in mind and are specifically handhinted to facilitate clarity and crispness. Serifs are generally more appealing to the eye, but with limited resolutions (say, to 150ppi) can be shown in their full glory only in bigger sizes, making them great for titles on websites. My favorites are slab-serifs (Rockwell and Chunk Five work nice) or transitional serifs (I like Playfair Display) for titles, and something like Open Sans or Helvetica Neue for body text. Looks great :)
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- WadeF 12y agoThat big "Apply" button screams Wufoo. :-)
- return0 12y ago> Since 2005, we've funded over 700 startups I sometimes wonder how many of these startups made it, and if the success rate inside YC is larger than outside of it (i.e. self funding, crowdfunding etc).
- X4 12y agoAlso curious on that, because as a "company", they will naturally interprete their own statistics the way it's promotable or advantagous for them. The truth is always ugly.
- joeblau 12y agoThis helps shed some light on some of that information: http://yclist.com/ http://yclist.com/
- 001sky 12y agoUseful website, but only 6.57% of YC companies have "died" according to that data. Even for a (beyond) successful fund, that number/dataset seems a bit contrived, and it should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt.
- jedc 12y agoCheck the data out for YC (and any other accelerator) here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators In addition to the lists of what companies have gone through which programs and when, I also have an Investor Graph to open up who's investing in companies from which programs, and at what stages. (http://www.seed-db.com/investorgraph http://www.seed-db.com/investorgraph)
- goblin89 12y agoThe choice of a geometric Futura-like font as primary face for body text always surprises me. Seems like it's just me, though.
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- freshyill 12y agoLooks great. Meanwhile I'd sell my first born for a few media queries and a max-width over here at Hacker News.
- webwright 12y agoLove it! So much awesome design thinking packed into this. This feels odd: http://monosnap.com/image/koDS9m3j3pz43AQVb2nHpuWwp4CGaq http://monosnap.com/image/koDS9m3j3pz43AQVb2nHpuWwp4CGaq Seems odd to say "application period is over! Here's an APPLY button!" Also, S14 seems like an abbreviation that wouldn't be meaningful to non-YC-faithful. Curse of knowledge? Suggest something like: "Applications open for Winter '15 soon. <link>Get notified</link>" (allowing people to get an email ping when it opens up?) You could have a link to the (non-useful but still educational) "apply" link in the FAQ? Or better yet, if they choose to get notified, say "great, we'll let you know. In the meantime, check out <link>last session's application</link>."
- pdeuchler 12y agoCue patio11 bitching about the call to action and tptacek explaining how the site fails crypto commandments x, y, and z, followed by grellas writing a 750 word essay on the intricacies of the design from an impassioned and impartial point of view. It matters in high performance Python.
- usaphp 12y agoLooks really nice and clean. The only issue I have is - the margin on the image which makes it look not in line with a set of images from the block above: http://bit.ly/1qh58NC http://bit.ly/1qh58NC
- mrmondo 12y agoReally does look great, very clean well done. Is there any plan to update hacker news? While it's minimal design has some appeal I think the UI really is in need of a makeover.
- benguild 12y agoFinally
- aestetix 12y agoDamn it now xycombinator.com is out of date.
- grinich 12y agowho wrote the copy for the new site? (it's great!)
- varkson 12y agoSo Y Combinator has gone from 1995 to 2007, wow so amazing guiz. Maybe try again and we might get to 2012. Does HN even use CSS? Probably try that next.
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- skizm 12y agoSolid redesign. Can't wait for a responsive version on hacker news. I use ihackernews.com now but I occasionally have trouble upvoting or commenting due to api rate limits.
- evertonfuller 12y agoLooks great, super clean and crisp.
- 11thEarlOfMar 12y agoPhoto gallery, near the bottom, first YC Class. Sam standing next to Paul.
- tuhaihe 12y agoGreat.
- ivv 12y agoWhy have the "Apply" button link to the expired "Apply to Y Combinator" page? Maybe show it only during the application period, or have the applications submitted after the deadline go to the next funding cycle?
- sixQuarks 12y agoI love the new site design (on a macbook), but on windows, the font is not as crisp. I love that font on mac though. Which font should developers use if they want crispness in both mac and windows?
- waitingkuo 12y agoLooks really clean and nice. And ... It's responsive!! Awesome!
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- capex 12y agoThat 1px dark border around the photo slider...
- r_singh 12y agoThe new design is good, but thanks for keeping the old one up too. The old design gave YC an identity in my mind, and differentiated it from the rest of the web. It conveyed to me that YC didn't have to follow web trends to get people on their website. I visited the website for its superb content. Rather than making text harder to "digest", the simple display of useful information appealed to me, and was a refresher. Perhaps, this may not be the preference of many other users.
- lacus 12y agoAm I really the only one who noticed that there are now women in some of the photos, as well as someone who is non-white/Asian? The design changes are great, too, but this seems a little more significant in terms of messaging. YC has been making more of an effort recently but it was always difficult for me to get past the fact that, according to their own photos, JL is the only woman there, or the only one worth showing in a photo. (This is coming from someone who was wanting to be able to like YC whole-heartedly, not someone looking for controversy.) I do actually think it's something that gets noticed, just maybe not always on a conscious level, so this is a great and welcomed (and more welcoming) change. Well done, y'all.
- marmarlade 12y agoLooks great! HTTPS giving me troubles, e.g. clicking through on footer links from HN: http://imgur.com/59cQ7G3 http://imgur.com/59cQ7G3 On an unrelated note (careful, Inception-style sentence coming up, and apologies if this has been mentioned before/isn't helpful), most of the footer links in the footer of the pages linked to in the footer of news.ycombinator.com lead to 404. Id est, click on a link in the footer, then click on a link in the footer of the page you just clicked to, 404 hey presto.
- Angostura 12y agoAm I the only one who feels lost without proper navigation options above the fold? The nav menu is right at the bottom. Feels very odd to me.