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

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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