Re:Ask HN: How would you redesign HN?
by softwaredoug on Sunday July 11, 2021 @10:12PM
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Very very little.
I find it annoying when someone asks a question with no description and never comes back to clarify. Just an ambiguous question in a headline. Like (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27801976). No idea on the best solution…
I find the discovery of past content a bit rough. Specifically search is either always doing the most recent or the highest voted submissions: never a combination of the both (aka something like hotness). So if I search on “Python”, I can choose recent uninteresting low votes stuff or 10 year old highest voted stuff that’s out of date. What I really want is “most recent, interesting Python stuff”.
But please don’t touch much else, it’s probably the most useful website and community I’ve used anywhere!
I find it annoying when someone asks a question with no description and never comes back to clarify. Just an ambiguous question in a headline. Like (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27801976). No idea on the best solution…
I find the discovery of past content a bit rough. Specifically search is either always doing the most recent or the highest voted submissions: never a combination of the both (aka something like hotness). So if I search on “Python”, I can choose recent uninteresting low votes stuff or 10 year old highest voted stuff that’s out of date. What I really want is “most recent, interesting Python stuff”.
But please don’t touch much else, it’s probably the most useful website and community I’ve used anywhere!