Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI?

Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by relaunched on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:33PM (#15220899)

Ugly UI doesn't mean a bad UX. I always point people towards craigslist and ebay.

I can get my news and put in my .02, when compelled to do so. Also, the community is authoritative and inviting.

What could you want from a new design that would add value to the community?

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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by chuck32 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:59AM (#15225581)

I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous.

- There is no search function anywhere

- Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15

- To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have to go through the FAQs?!

- Update a comment and you get redirected to the same form with no message.

I really don't get why a site who's target audiance is web developers and hackers has such terrible functionality on their site. Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?

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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by DanBC on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:34AM (#15226179)

> - There is no search function anywhere

The bottom.of most pages has a search box.

Most people here will be able.to use DDG or Bing or Google to search the site.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by chuck32 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:57AM (#15226270)

I stand corrected.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by krapp on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:29AM (#15226159)

> Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?

It would certainly raise the bar for entry if HN just offered an undocumented API and required users to write their own clients for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by chuck32 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:56AM (#15226265)

True, but it would also perpetuate the stereotype of developers and techies as being a closed community of pretentious nerds.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI? by echan00 on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:41PM (#15220975)

I actually don't have any problems with ugly UI. I agree with your sentiment on craigslist, but I think the UX of hackernews can be better. Perhaps more emphasis on the discussion or how it is presented? Or ways to sort/display them? I always have this feeling there is good stuff in the discussion but I have to focus myself to read/takeaway from them. Like I said, maybe it's just me?

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