How a car works (2012)

Re:How a car works (2012) by mrspeaker on Friday July 17, 2015 @07:42AM (#9902242)

Hey, I think this site is amazing and certain appeals to my "hacker aesthetic" even though I'm not a car person! One thing that I'd like to see is some kind of guided tour - I got to the page and instantly saw "how heating systems work" and then "the engine - how power is created" and this confused me a bit. It made it seem like the first thing you need to know about cars is how the heater works!

Then I realized there wasn't rhyme or reason about the order of the Basics and I kind of got a bit of the tyranny of choice and then came back to the Hacker News article.

I feel if there was a path for first time visitors I would have taken it and been lost in engine parts for the rest of the day ;)

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Re:How a car works (2012) by AlexMuir on Friday July 17, 2015 @08:19AM (#9902344)

You're right - the order to Basics is somewhat chaotic - I'm going to fix this today. I'd reordered it to push heavily trafficked articles to the front page for SEO reasons. That was a bad idea with hindsight.

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Re:How a car works (2012) by jdmichal on Friday July 17, 2015 @02:01PM (#9904147)

I don't think that was a terrible choice. Just that maybe if you're going to do that, that there should also be a "Start Here if you have no idea what's going on" option that would be an ordered walkthrough of the basics.

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Re:How a car works (2012) by myth_buster on Friday July 17, 2015 @04:38PM (#9905172)

Hey, can't you put them all into a popular/most visited section on the home page.

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