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Re:How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and c... by MichaelApproved on Friday July 13, 2012 @07:18PM (#4242476)
This is one of those times I miss the upvote counter on HN. I think it's important for the makers of StartSSL to see just how many people agree with you that their interface completely sucks. Without the counter, it just seems like one person's opinion while I bet many people agree.
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Re:How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and c... by chris_wot on Friday July 13, 2012 @09:32PM (#4242777)
HN is not there for the marketing purposes of companies.
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Re:How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and c... by antidoh on Friday July 13, 2012 @10:21PM (#4242877)
HN and all other web sites are there for whatever purposes their users wish to use it for, within the constraints of whatever actions are implemented on a site.

This is one of the things that infuriates me about StackOverflow and its army of article closing moderators. A real community will change its practices and perceptions over time according to the needs of the community. If you have a subset of people who decide what a site is for, forever and ever without change, then it's not a community, it's a cast. Or it's a system of castes.

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Re:How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and c... by jcbrand on Saturday July 14, 2012 @01:21AM (#4243218)
So if the community (through an influx of new users) decides that the purpose of HN is to spread cat pictures and memes, you'll be cool with that?
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Re:How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and c... by antidoh on Saturday July 14, 2012 @04:14AM (#4243557)
No, I'd probably leave. Unless the cats were really interesting.
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Re:How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and c... by sjwright on Saturday July 14, 2012 @09:43AM (#4244127)
Welcome to how so many social sites died.
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Re:How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and c... by MisterMerkin on Saturday July 14, 2012 @03:36AM (#4243480)
It wouldn't be HN anymore at that point.
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