The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by _spl on Friday May 17, 2024 @05:37AM (#40388068)

HN feels like email groups. Lots of useful discussions but isn't very accessible to a younger audience.

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by teitoklien on Friday May 17, 2024 @07:24AM (#40388684)

I’m 21, have been following HN since I was 18, from Asia.

HN is perfectly accessible for younger folks, if you make it more accessible for casual unserious people, you’ll start getting more and more casual and unserious conversation.

The UI is a good filter to remove folks who need hipster UI to just use a platform.

HN is fine.

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by sofixa on Friday May 17, 2024 @08:34AM (#40389195)

There is hipster UI, and there's not handling pagination, having buttons bordering on the unusable on mobile, commenting requiring a new page to be opened, etc.

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by ineedaj0b on Friday May 17, 2024 @05:04PM (#40394204)

i complained of this but finally bought a larger phone and it fixed most of my complaints. i was using an iphone 4 till last year

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by skydhash on Friday May 17, 2024 @08:45PM (#40395596)

I have a 11 inch tablet for HN casual reading. And I moved over to the laptop for serious discussions. My phone is for checking only because it’s always near.

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by fragmede on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:21PM (#40396046)

thankfully, due to the simplicity of this site, it's easily parsable, and Daniel Wu made an iOS app which addresses some of those issues, called Octal.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...

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