"decreasing maintenance overhead" could apply equally to every feature on the site, though. How often do people use polls?
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by TheRealPomax on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:59AM
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there are polls?
> there are polls?
...Exactly. It's been a feature forever, it complicates the codebase, and no one ever uses it.
Two examples[0,1].
https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
Hardly ever see it used in any capacity though.
Re gp: removing buttons shown on every page is probably more about simplifying interface and reclaiming space than maintenance overhead.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by TheRealPomax on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:24PM
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there's no space to reclaim, honestly. If removing a 12pt line of text saves space, please buy a phone that supports more than just WAP.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by ryandrake on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:49AM
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Also, “it’s not used frequently” is a really bad reason to remove a feature. Frequency of use is not a proxy for usefulness. I don’t use my backup software’s “restore” feature often but that doesn’t mean it should be removed.
Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts
by AlchemistCamp on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:51AM
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What's the maintenance cost of the web, save and hide buttons now that they've been implemented and working for years?
Standard MO of software engineers is to rewrite code into the latest and greatest framework/language/style every couple of years to keep the resume fresh.
That said, I really hope favorites isn't removed because even though I only discovered the feature a few years ago, I really cherish the comments I've favorited.