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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by humanistbot on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:41PM (#32855690)
I've literally never seen a link to an HN comment go viral on social media, such that my non-HN friends would read it. It happens for blog/medium/substack posts all the time.
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:43PM (#32857504)
> I've literally never seen a link to an HN comment go viral on social media

I've never thought about this, but now that you've pointed it out, I'm realizing this is genuinely a fantastic feature.

Sounds like yet another of the many perks of the spartan design here. All substance, with just a hint of (cascading) style.

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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by layer8 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:49PM (#32855818)
But for what reason? The styling?
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by elliekelly on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:57PM (#32855928)
Definitely. HN is suspiciously devoid images. To most people on the internet in 2022 that alone makes it wholly uninteresting.
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by klyrs on Thursday September 15, 2022 @02:29PM (#32856367)
I often wonder how the site survives without sticky autoplay videos popping up halfway down the page and covering 80% of the content...
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by dotancohen on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:18PM (#32857919)
Surely it's due to the mobile application that HN is always pushing. And the invasive tracking. And the paywall. And the ads, the ads go without saying.
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by bombcar on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:58PM (#32858981)
The ads keep HN alive. But because each one only needs to sell "one product" (the job they're hiring for) nobody hardly notices them.
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by easrng on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:56PM (#32858972)
It uses images for the upvote/downvote arrows, the Y in the header, and the spacer gifs in the table layout (yes, HN uses table layouts)
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by codehalo on Thursday September 15, 2022 @02:03PM (#32856012)
HN reads like grumpy old tech and finance guys in Dockers pants and Alligator t-shirts stuck in 2000.
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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business by Tao3300 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @02:36PM (#32856487)
They're alligator polos, you rugrat!
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