Hacker News Reader

Comment by gjsman-1000 | Hacker News Reader

You know... Hacker News is built with a pretty-obscure framework IIRC that is little-used elsewhere, and we're all about open-source. It would almost make sense to reimplement HN in something more common and then open-source it so that regular developers could make improvements.

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I'm solidly in the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' camp on that one.

I'm solidly in the "Hacker News is the Craigslist of web forums" camp. It may not be broke, but there is a lot of room for improvement...

I actually love the design of Craigslist. it works well enough for you to find what you're looking for (if it exists), but it does not invite you to linger afterwards.

I have to be honest, the 'craigslist of web forums' is the entire appeal for me. It's simple, fast, low clutter and in my opinion benefits from great moderation and a general involvement from the community to avoid treating it like a gutter. I could be suffering from limited imagination, but I'm not really seeing major opportunities for improvement. Change? Yes, for sure, lots of ways to change the site but I don't know how they would result in an outcome of improved community or experience.

I maintain a pretty high quality implementation of Hacker News. https://github.com/tensorfork/tlarc

It has bcrypt, HN's current CSS, and so on. We use it to manage our TPUs: http://www.tensorfork.com/tpus

Improvements welcome. The nicest part is how quickly you can iterate on a webpage. The production site pulls from github every 10 seconds, and everything reloads on demand, so I can just push new code to master and see the changes instantly.

(No need to push to github just to see changes locally, of course. Every time you reload, it checks whether any loaded files have changed.)

It's fine as it is, do we really want it to go the direction of Reddit with broken navigation, live chat, typing notifications?

improvements, like, making yourself supreme ruler?

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