Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned?

Re:Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned? by SiVal on Monday January 13, 2014 @01:40AM (#7049282)

Amen. What a nuisance. You can keep clicking the next page button to see what other stories there are until you actually read one, after which the next page button will fail, and you'll have to start over again. What's the point of even having more than about three pages? The only way to reach those pages is to keep clicking next while carefully avoiding the temptation to read anything along the way, lest you get sent back to Level 1.

I'm not buying the argument that if HN has good stories and comments people will keep coming back and if they come back, it means they want a next page button that fails. A doesn't imply B.

If frequent expiration is to remain a feature, would it be possible to have a preference setting allowing us to put the first four pages or so on our front page? Then we could read whatever looks most interesting among the first 120 items instead of the first 30 before we get that expired next button we supposedly don't mind.

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Re:Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned? by nazka on Monday January 13, 2014 @03:23AM (#7049476)

To avoid that I use this website: http://hckrnews.com/ Maybe you should take a look. Just simple and useful.

And to share everything I also use a theme for HN. It makes the design a little more as a flat design and with bigger letters which is especially what I wanted. https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special

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Re:Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned? by wanda on Monday January 13, 2014 @05:02AM (#7049728)

There is also http://hackerbra.in

but I always use vanilla HN because I'm fond of it and the UI is pretty much the best for me.

That said, it would be very cool if users could implement their own custom CSS natively like you can on http://yayhooray.net

I personally detest browser extensions and I don't like how they slap custom CSS over the top of sites like make-up. Even those who aren't up for fiddling with style sheets could share in what others make.

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Re:Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned? by nazka on Monday January 13, 2014 @05:39AM (#7049849)

Thank you to share. For extensions, I do like the good old design of HN but I really prefer to have bigger letters. That's mainly why I use the other one.

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Re:Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned? by SiVal on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @04:49PM (#7059997)

Thanks for your suggestion, too, nazka.

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