Hacker News Reader

Comment by jsprogrammer | Hacker News Reader

Would be nice if the Google link were on the front page instead of having to waste many seconds dealing with this bullshite (go to page, full text loads, split second later screen flashes and locks down, make it out to HN, look for Google link, almost flag post, wait for discussions to load, find Google/web link, wait,find correct link, reload same content, discover fluff).

View on HN

"waste seconds"

Come on, really? I'm sort of hoping you're being ironic!? I mean - you're reading articles on HN about fruit and veg in Chinatown. On a Sunday. A few seconds isn't worth getting angsty about :-)

Wasted time is a waste. I'd rather not. Seems like it would be seconds to implement the feature and would save man-years of time.

If loading a small text page is a hassle... I'm not sure what millennium your connection is in.

This millenium maybe? You know, the one when Internet consumption largely switched from computers with wired connections to mobile with wireless ones. The one when all the media companies started jamming tons of javascript and user interface dark patterns down our throats.

Madox's site is a "small text page"; the WSJ site, even the mobile version, is a stellar scale monolith in comparison.

That "small text page" weighs in around 2.1MB.

I thought you were referring to the HN page, which is what the comment seems to suggest to me.

HN is probably small, but often suffers from bad latency.

Depends on where you are - HN uses cloudflare, so it can be incredibly quick (even on 3G on a mobile) if you hit a cached page.

The tl:dr here was better anyway.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com