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Comment by walrus01 | Hacker News Reader

Here's a thought for UI change for HN, at the top of any page such as this one with a great many posts, that has multiple pages, how about a text-based chooser menu with clickable numbers that looks like:

Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 > End

or similar...

Located directly below the add comment button.

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I think everyone knows that the UX is bad. The work just has to be done, and it's not particularly critical.

If I know anything about software, it's been in HN's issue tracker for years.

Considering how awful the unilateral design changes to Facebook and Reddit have been, I for one sincerely hope that Hacker News never changes. Its UX is perfect.

It doesn't have to change the UI much to fix the pagination visibility issue.

This UX may be bad, but the current hackish solution of a parent comment being posted with link to the other pages is the worst.

Compared to most websites I visit during the day, HN is a breath of fresh air.

agreed. Simple, but useful. Not bloated

That's on purpose:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25087113

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25065663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24042165

If you guys complain enough about these comments at the top of the threads, it might actually get me to finish the damn performance improvements so I guess keep complaining.

Dang, is there a GitHub repo where we can contribute, file a pull request, and see what happens?

I only see the API available, not any of the front-end: https://github.com/HackerNews

It is a black box. An enigma, wrapped in mystery and covered in secret sauce.

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