Hacker News 2
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SHOW HN2012
23points
22comments
#860of 1,677 in 2012
Top 52%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 14 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.64.
Design: 0 for, 7 againstPerformance: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Makes blogspam and linkbait easy to spot
From 2 comments
This project is awesome mostly because you can see blogspam and linkbait immediately. There are some glitches of articles with no screenshots and the borders on images are HUGE.…
chaffneue on HNI felt the same about the thumbnails. Then I checked out the new articles and could easily pick out the spam (Indian Party Wear Sarees in this case). I don't think it's so useful…
Dysiode on HN
Objections
Thumbnails add noise and make skimming harder than HN
From 5 comments
I am sorry, But I don't find it better than HN in anyway. Two main reasons why: 1. Too much noise, real strain to focus on each title. The reason why I say that the thumbnails as…
aditiyaa1 on HNI can see 18 headlines when I arrive at Hacker News. I can see 6 headlines when I arrive at Hacker News Two. The headlines are obvious when I arrive at Hacker News. There is a…
mischov on HNIt's very difficult to read or focus on anything in particular, or to skim through everything in general.
benologist on HNI don't find the screenshots useful at all.
aaronpk on HNAbsolutely love your stack and you should tell more about how you did and write a decent blog post. And I like and appreciate the idea of improving HN: we all love HN, are…
tferris on HN
Page loads far too slowly and is too heavy for slow connections
From 3 comments
Most of the month (all but a few days) I've only got a 20 kbit/s connection. Let that sink in. Twenty. Kilobits. Per. Second. That's less than the voyager spacecraft (but…
henrikeh on HNI don't like it at all. I have a fairly fast connection, but I live in Australia and latency is a real issue. Hacker News loads pretty much instantly. This takes 6.78 seconds to…
charliesome on HNI'm sorry to rant but this is how bloat happens. HN2 offers no relevant information over the current HN and is almost a hundred times as big. People will probably throw more…
gurkendoktor on HN
Grid layout with uneven widths is hard to scan
From 3 comments
On top of this, the eye tends to move from top left to bottom right. This grid layout forces the user to read left to right across the entire screen, drop down and start again in…
andrewfelix on HNNot sure if it's me, but the different width sizes makes it messy and cumbersome to read. I think it would be a lot more organizes if there was some more order to this. Also, not…
technojuicy on HNAbsolutely love your stack and you should tell more about how you did and write a decent blog post. And I like and appreciate the idea of improving HN: we all love HN, are…
tferris on HN
Requests
Use a plain top-down list instead of a grid
From 2 comments
On top of this, the eye tends to move from top left to bottom right. This grid layout forces the user to read left to right across the entire screen, drop down and start again in…
andrewfelix on HNAbsolutely love your stack and you should tell more about how you did and write a decent blog post. And I like and appreciate the idea of improving HN: we all love HN, are…
tferris on HN
Load links in HTML rather than over a websocket
From 1 comment
It appears so. Open Chrome's Network Inspector and reload the page to see for yourself. This could be resolved by sending the links in the HTML rather than pulling them down over…
charliesome on HN
Add a flag link and endless scrolling
From 1 comment
This project is awesome mostly because you can see blogspam and linkbait immediately. There are some glitches of articles with no screenshots and the borders on images are HUGE.…
chaffneue on HN
Questions
Is the delay caused by websockets?
From 1 comment
> Most of that time is spent waiting on a web socket. Is the delay after the header loaded caused by websockets? Is this always with websockets or are there ways to avoid delays?
tferris on HN
Alternatives named
Hacker News
From 2 comments
I can see 18 headlines when I arrive at Hacker News. I can see 6 headlines when I arrive at Hacker News Two. The headlines are obvious when I arrive at Hacker News. There is a…
mischov on HNMost of the month (all but a few days) I've only got a 20 kbit/s connection. Let that sink in. Twenty. Kilobits. Per. Second. That's less than the voyager spacecraft (but…
henrikeh on HN
Reddit and imgur image browsing
From 1 comment
I am sorry, But I don't find it better than HN in anyway. Two main reasons why: 1. Too much noise, real strain to focus on each title. The reason why I say that the thumbnails as…
aditiyaa1 on HN