Re:Show HN: Modern Hacker News with custom userstyles
by wassago on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:46PM
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Interesting indeed. I was just thinking about this the other day before deciding on putting together the userstyle. I was wondering weather the current HN backend is as fast as it can be, I'm sure there are dozens of developers that would like to rewrite it for free.
Re:Show HN: Modern Hacker News with custom userstyles
by krapp on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @05:46PM
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>I was wondering weather the current HN backend is as fast as it can be, I'm sure there are dozens of developers that would like to rewrite it for free.
Yeah... it's too bad Y-Combinator doesn't seem to trust the hacker community enough to risk open sourcing their code and taking public pull requests. Can't risk having people see the algorithms and whatnot.
Heaven knows the "dozens" of Arc programmers out there probably don't have much else to do...
It is interesting to consider how some of these communities likely benefit from leaving their styles the same for a long time. Many of the biggest update very rarely: reddit, 4chan, etc... The familiarity to old users, simplicity and speed of an older design, and the added walling-of-the-garden that probably helps keep content quality up.