Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by DC-3 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:43PM (#20855147)

Since he's probably too modest to mention it himself, the user you're replying to is the founder of the news aggregator and forum site Tildes [1] which is pretty much the gold standard of modern forum site design imho. If anyone has the right to make this comment it's him.

[1] https://tildes.net

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by 18pfsmt on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:57PM (#20855255)

>which is pretty much the gold standard of modern forum site design

Wait, what?

>open-source link aggregator with no ads or tracking (currently in invite-only alpha)

HN is over 12 years old and much larger. Suggesting an alpha-level service is the "gold standard" is pure hyperbole.

I'm not familiar with the founder, so I am not making any judgement; and, I support the basic premise of their project.

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by Deimorz on Sunday September 01, 2019 @08:14PM (#20855823)

I think they were just talking about the design. HN is certainly a lot more active and successful overall, but it's extremely minimal for both design and functionality (which is part of its appeal).

Tildes's design has a lot more to it, including better responsiveness for mobile use, a built-in theme system with multiple themes (including dark ones), full markdown (CommonMark/"GitHub Flavored Markdown") support, syntax highlighting for code, etc. There are lots of aspects of it that would be nice to have on HN.

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by Deimorz on Sunday September 01, 2019 @07:05PM (#20855583)

Thanks! I'm honestly a pretty terrible designer overall and there's still a lot that's bad about Tildes's design, but it's slowly improving. There are some major changes coming soon, and hopefully those will help some more too.

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by thrwwyw3489 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @07:34PM (#20855664)

It looks pretty good. I would add a bit of left margin (can be responsive, it looks good currently in a narrow/mobile window) but the rest is gold.

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by streb-lo on Sunday September 01, 2019 @07:46PM (#20855718)

Any chance of an invite?

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by Deimorz on Sunday September 01, 2019 @07:57PM (#20855757)

Definitely (open for anyone else too) - there's no messaging on HN though, so just send me an email to the address in the announcement post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

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