Ask HN: Meta: HN Commentary

1 pointsby cybernautiquevor 5 Jahren4 comments

I'm a recent-lurker-and-signee; with the negativity and doom-scrolling that's so pervasive in our modern discourse, I'd like to kick off this thread on a positive note!

Moreover, recent signees might benefit from seeing discussions about the UX of HN for a couple of reasons. It would help spread knowledge about the features that come with familiarity, and provide some explicit notions of reasonable UX design for new UX designers.

*What do you like about HN?*

I'm a fan of HN's user-centric design. I really appreciate the favorites feature in particular, specifically about how favoriting a thread brings you to your favorites. It's a very functional bookmark system.

*What would you like to see improved?*

There are only two features I wish HN had: a way to remove the karma counts, and some method to receive notice about replies to comments/submissions. There's probably a way to cobble these features together, it would just be nice to have natively.

Wishing everyone and your loved ones the best! Hope y'all are having a good day, and stay safe :)

5 comments

[deleted]vor 5 Jahren

earpwaldvor 5 Jahren

I agree about the notifications for replies etc...perhaps I've just not seen it yet!

onenitevor 5 Jahren

Perhaps, in the spirit of "hacker" "news", one could write a script to check for replies and then notify us via email or something.

You could even possibly add in functionality to respond via email...

cybernautiquevor 5 Jahren

On the one hand, it is nice to not have some of these drive-engagement features... on the other hand, I genuinely want to engage with HN posters!

onenitevor 5 Jahren

Agreed. In that case, maybe we just have to make sure to schedule dedicated time for HN usage. Probably better for us to keep things like this manual :-).

Also, it gives us time to edit/delete our comments like a ninja!