Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
by roenxi on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:22AM
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> How could it possibly be considered a good thing?
It will work with any possible browser under any reasonably foreseeable condition with no maintenance on the part of the HN crew.
> I bet that they'd see a significant drop in resource usage solely by not generating entire comments pages just to throw them away every time anyone votes on a comment.
If there is a serious performance problem they will presumably do some analysis and make changes related to the most serious bottleneck.
> There are multiple downsides
There are multiple irrelevant hypotheticals. If anyone cares about the heavy-weight HN, I hope they don't accidentally click the link to the article and discover the wider internet with images and whatnot.
It will work with any possible browser under any reasonably foreseeable condition with no maintenance on the part of the HN crew.
> I bet that they'd see a significant drop in resource usage solely by not generating entire comments pages just to throw them away every time anyone votes on a comment.
If there is a serious performance problem they will presumably do some analysis and make changes related to the most serious bottleneck.
> There are multiple downsides
There are multiple irrelevant hypotheticals. If anyone cares about the heavy-weight HN, I hope they don't accidentally click the link to the article and discover the wider internet with images and whatnot.