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Comment by zupreme | Hacker News Reader

That's why I kept the terms YCombinator and Hacker News out of the domain name. I felt that HN2 got the point across. As I pointed out in the blog post, HN2.co is my way of paying homage to a great resource by adding additional functionality.

Thanks for looking, and thanks for your feedback.

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Props for shipping. But how are you adding functionality? It's really not that hard to click links.

Tangent: all this 'redesign HN' stuff is misguided. HN is brilliantly designed. It's sparse, it's not pretty, but it would be hard to improve the design from a UX point of view. Good design is about thought, not about shininess.

Good points. The main goal was to make a site that let the visitor consume great content from HN, but without accumulating the clutter of multiple windows and tabs, and without the hassle of hitting the back button over and over to go back to HN after reading an article.

For future functionality I would like to add the ability to post links to the original stories to social networks right from the UI, to mark certain stories as "watched" and to receive either push notifications or AJAX-refreshed notifications when a story you are "watching" gets a new comment or when you get a reply to a comment you have posted.

But collecting tabs is how the web works. You follow article after article, until all the questions are closed, marked for later reading, or you run out of time.

Oh, and removing the comments? Dude!

If you wanted to improve HN, make the comments and linked site accessible at once, so people don't have to jump from one to the other.

I hear you. I plan to add the comments. I just didn't have time to do so this weekend. I expect to have them there within the next few days.

If you have any suggestions for how best to place them without adding clutter, I'd be grateful.

Thanks.

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