A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Feedback

Re:A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Fe... by harrygeez on Sunday December 31, 2023 @02:06PM (#38826558)

> The goal is to enhance the user experience and interface, making it more user-friendly and visually appealing

I don't want to sound discouraging, but the thing you need to realize is most of us are here because we like its user interface, not despite it. If you're looking to enhance the site you should improve on its strengths, not change it to something it isn't.

Hacker News loads instantly all the time and I think I speak for most here that we don't want all these extra JS or Next React wizardry.

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Re:A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Fe... by butz on Sunday December 31, 2023 @02:27PM (#38826752)

I'll have to admit, that "modern" website loads a bit faster for me (1.23s vs 1.83s), but that's probably because its visitors count is way lower than on original HN. And, funny thing, the single resource that increases load time over a second is hot-linked y18.svg from HN.

Transfer sizes are so much different: 276.73 kB vs 14.23 kB transferred with compression. And original HN still could improve transfer size by removing IE8 support for triangle icon rotation from CSS.

To conclude: UI and UX experiments are a good thing, keep them coming, as web technologies are not standing still.

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Re:A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Fe... by 1997roylee on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:54AM (#38830513)

Thanks for you sharing benchmark result, i will work on reducing the svg size.

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