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Re:.mail app by Kiro on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @04:16PM (#4292798)
I thought reddit and HN were using the same system. What's the difference?
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Re:.mail app by Samuel_Michon on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @04:33PM (#4292864)
Hacker News is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

Reddit used be written in Lisp, but they switched to Python early on: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html

I do agree that they look alike, Hacker News was inspired by Reddit.

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Re:.mail app by sp332 on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:44PM (#4293248)
Not the same exact software, just the same way of representing comment threads.
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Re:.mail app by andrewflnr on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @07:16PM (#4293564)
Collapsing threads, for one thing.
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Re:.mail app by wisty on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:55PM (#4294007)
It's like, one line of javascript different (the equivalent of if score < threshold: thread.collapse())
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Re:.mail app by andrewflnr on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:31AM (#4295847)
I don't care about the code. Collapsing is a significant change in UX.
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Re:.mail app by samstave on Saturday July 28, 2012 @06:03PM (#4306655)
EXACTLY!

No one seems to get this, not HN, not Quora, Digg (though that doesn't matter any longer...)

Its about increasing the information consumption rate and navigation rate. Collapsing is critical to navigating threads with thousands of comments, even tens of comments!

Any UX designer who does not see this, is, in my book, worthless.

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Re:.mail app by shock3naw on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:34AM (#4295654)
Inspect the source for both sites. I have to admit, I felt a little nauseous when I first read HN's markup & styling.
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