Hacker News Reader

That just looks like a different aesthetic. Much like Korea and Japan[1]; they could make minimalist webpages in the Western style, but they choose not to.

[1] https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differe... and https://www.translatemedia.com/translation-blog/website-desi... and http://digitalcommunications.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2016/03/03/... and so on

View on HN

It's not the high information density on the home page (common in Asia) but the overall web design style and functionality. The site was developed over a decade ago and has many interesting bits. For example, the "show me the product I ordered" page brings you to a captured JPG screenshot of the product listing.

And product listing pages look something like this:

https://24h.pchome.com.tw/prod/DSAM2L-A9007SS3R

Contrast/compare with these main players in China:

http://www.jd.com/

http://tmall.com/

http://taobao.com/

Is this just a different aesthetic too http://live.pchome.com.tw/liver_form_predb.php?live_no=L1711...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com