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1. jff+V4[view] [source] 2013-01-04 04:59:58
>>muelle+(OP)
It's simple but effective. The pages load quickly and look pretty decent in many different browsers.

I'm really happy that HN isn't your typical constantly-mutating, constantly growing news site, adding a new social share button and 2KB of new Javascript every week. Please, pg, don't start taking pull requests or anything like that, it's great the way it is.

Edit: look at the current top story. A pretty but not especially functional Facebook redesign, proposed as the latest in a long line of changes that the users pretty much always disliked. There's my point.

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2. ramble+t5[view] [source] 2013-01-04 05:13:42
>>jff+V4
It's fine. It does what it's supposed to that's true. There are a few items however, that should really have been tackled in the many years this site has now been running imo.

- You can't take away an upvote. Misclick is just bad luck

- user settings have some really obscure settings that aren't explained like showdead / noprocrast / maxvisit / minaway

- The "Unknown or expired link" is just a bad solution, either redirect me to the front page when that happens, or find an alternative way to deal with it.

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3. zem+xc[view] [source] 2013-01-04 08:38:23
>>ramble+t5
using hn with a small touchscreen (phone or tablet) makes you really appreciate the magnitude of the irrevocable misclick problem.
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4. killer+cg[view] [source] 2013-01-04 10:24:50
>>zem+xc
the UX on tablets is sometimes just absurd, isn't it? I thought it is a practical joke. Thousands of tech savy folks driving the internet use an interface from the nineties.

how often I missed this upvote button or saw expired session..

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