3 ms·
The general HN feature philosophy: HN is a simple site with a simple purpose. Its worked just fine this way for 10 years. Is it actually broken now and worth f
by hack_edu 12y ago
The general HN feature philosophy: HN is a simple site with a simple purpose.
Its worked just fine this way for 10 years. Is it actually broken now and worth fixing, and further, why devote the energy when it continues to work fine? And really, the last thing HN needs are giant tangent comment trees. These rarely remain professional and on-topic.
- wuliwong 12y agoObviously saying that it "works fine" is subjective. For instance, I posted this and got caught up at work and then on a plane and completely forgot about it until today. Some sort of notification would have been cool if it would have gave me a visual cue that people are responding to my post. From what people have posted, I would argue that the "threads" link is a failed attempt at something nearing notifications. I literally never clicked it until today after years of using HN. At some point, someone thought it was a good idea to implement the tracking of all the conversations you participate in. Why not try to make it more useful? I think the suggestion for "threads (12)" is great. You can't possibly think that makes things too complex?
- hack_edu 12y agoWell coincidentally I just saw this a few minutes after you replied ;) We both didn't look all weekend. Our lives went on, and we still made it back here anyway, and we can still have this conversation without urgency (or the distraction of karma, I might add). I save my comment trees for reddit...