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Comment by puppetmaster3 | Hacker News Reader

Hey programmers:'let us make ugly apps. No idea why we need designers.'

Hey designers: 'See, you don't want a programmer touching front end. You have to have creative control. Else they'll make reddit and hacker news UX.'

http://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/3f5416bc-c975-4915-a9d1...

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The UX on HN and Reddit is basically perfect, though.

The UX on HN is good. Reddit, not so much nowadays.

HN is pretty good after the update that introduced tree collapsing, except that the up/down arrows are implemented weirdly. So on my Windows tablet, and occasionally on Android, when clicking on the arrow the browser decides to snap to the nearest clickable link instead, which is the userid.

I'm also intending to build a scraper simply so I can determine what my highest voted comments of all time are.

You can use this search API: hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=comment,author_pjc50

Usenet is better.

This is a specialization of "let's form two tribes so we can argue about stuff." "Argue" is not a perjorative here; productive argument is a good thing. We must generally, though treat the other tribe as a customer to aid in making said discussion productive.

Perhaps with Web protocols, things are ... entangled in inconvenient ways ( for, you know, ... reasons ) such that the formation of two tribes is a solution.

I don't generally build Web things. When I do build a GUI, I intentionally give it an old style, because I'm really a systems programmer ( eek, a third tribe! ) and this invites someone else to express the resulting inevitable disgust in a replacement. But meanwhile, there's an interface for it.

What does this have to do with the article?

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