Hacker News Reader

Site completely fails to load without Javascript, and only does a half-assed job of loading with JS enabled. No graceful degradation at all.

View on HN

Same here; FF 14 told me some script was taking too long run and if I wanted to stop it - twice.

My machine is slow, but not that slow!

I'm curious, do you browse exclusively with JS disabled (if so, why)?

Or did you just try it for testing purposes?

Yeah, I browse the web without JS and whitelist sites I use frequently. I wouldn't have commented if your site loaded fine with JS turned on, but even allowing local JS it still renders really badly (Chrome/ OS X). From error messages it looks like your scripts really don't like it if they can't load resources from Facebook and Twitter.

And Twitter/Facebook (especially Facebook) are the reason I browse the web without JS.

Yes that's a product choice we made. All the UI is designed around javascript, all the nav is done through ajax.

What an awful decision, for so many reasons.

That's not a product choice, that's a mistake.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com