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1. Which age range do you fall under? 30s

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 3 years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? yes, often 6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? Clean, basic, intelligent user base compared to other social media platforms.

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? Get involved in discussions on variety of topics. Yes.

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? I would not touch a thing. Maybe add option for dark mode?

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? Basic, clean, old school, and informative.

>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

30's

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y.

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

8

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

Multiple times daily.

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

Define contribute. Writing code for ycombinator.com? No. Commenting, etc? Yes.

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

9.5

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Because it's awesome.

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

I mainly answer questions about issues I know a thing or two about, and read insights from interesting people.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I use hnreplies.com to get replies and to respond to people in a timely manner.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Great.

>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

40s

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

12

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

once a day on average

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

yes, often

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

8

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

High degree of alignment on interests while still having a good range of opinions and civil discourse

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Keep up to date on tech, tech industry, startup culture news.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I'd add the ability to follow or highlight people who's comments/submissions I'm interested in.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Straightforward and useful.

1. Which age range do you fall under? - 20's

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? #1

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? It gives me access to all kinds or news, be it tech, political, and I also get to see awesome stuff that people are working on. Love the community.

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? I visit HN mostly to access Show HN, also the monthly Who wants to be hired, Who wants to be hiring thread. Yes I am able to accomplish my goal of visiting HN.

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? I would stick to the way it is. No fancy UI, just plain and direct knowledge list.

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? Plain and Direct.

1. Which age range do you fall under? 30s

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 7 years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, every now and then

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 8

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? High ratio of signal to noise. Regularly see comments from big players in the tech field.

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? Informed about tech news, and procrastination. Yes.

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? Better handling for lots of comments. I don't like the "More" link at the bottom of the page. Would maybe remove the "You've posted too quickly" issue that intermittently seems to occur.

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? Clean.

1. Which age range do you fall under? 30s

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 10 years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? yes, every now and then

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? Best moderation, more "hard" tech discussions

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? Learn about new software/products/paradigms and things happening in the world of "tech". Yes.

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? Comment reply notifications, though I use an external service for this

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? Barebones and well moderated community full of intelligent people

Hi everyone I'm doing a UI/UX Case Study on Hacker News and would really appreciate if you answered the questions below. Thank you so much for your time and help! also open to any advice or critique. 1. Which age range do you fall under? 50 and older

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 4

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? - no, don't care to

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 8

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? variety

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? stay up to date and yes

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? fine the way it is

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? utilitarian

Again, thank you for your help!

>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

20s

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

9

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

multiple times daily

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

yes, every now and then

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

10

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Quality content and conversation.

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Learn something new. Yes.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

Add: get notifications on replies.

Remove: flags automatically killing threads.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Orange.

1. Which age range do you fall under? 50 and older

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 3 of years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? The community here is smart, and doesn't take any shit.

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? Learn something interesting and/or useful

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? It's surprisingly well done, I'd be afraid to change anything.

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? Elegant

1. Which age range do you fall under? 20's

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 5 years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? every now and then

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Moderation, deeper and more in-depth content and comments

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Keep up-to-date in my fields and learn from what the community has to offer. Yes

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I like how few features there are, it does one job and does it well

10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

A rare, quality public online community

1. Which age range do you fall under? 40's - 50

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 13

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, every now and then

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 9

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms? Less advertising, better moderation.

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal? Informed about tech news. Yes.

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be? Nothing

10. Describe the current website in one or more words? Good :)

B Y ~8 A A 9

Because there's a high enough percent of good content, comments are often helpful, and it's lightweight.

I don't define a goal before I open a news site, so not applicable.

The recent addition of next/prev buttons is nice, though keeping relative position on the screen would be nicer (so I'll continue to use collapse, another fairly recent feature). One big omission from the featureset is easily seeing what's new, either in replies to your comments or (to a lesser extent) in threads, though some argue it's for the better that you have to seek out replies actively so idk.

Effective

1.) 50's

2.) No.

3.) 6

4.) multiple times per day (it's replaced /. etc for me)

5.) Not sure what you mean.

6.) 5

7.) It's not a foaming at the mouth righty site, clean design of the comment section

8.) n/a

9.) The ability to save threads/comments/stories to a list on my account to make it easier to go back and read them in the future

10.) Orange, yellow, white.

1 30s 2 y 3 1 4 multiple times a day 5 rarely 6 10 7 interesting stuff, smart people 8 become less dumb; I hope so 9 wouldn't change anything 10 practical and pragmatic

1 40s 2 yes 3 6 4 multiple times a day 5 now and then 6 8 7 lightweight good comment Section 8 get smarter 9 10

1. 20s

2. Yes

3. 5 years

4. Every other day

5. Yes, every now and then

6. 9/10 usability

7. The interface and the community are better than those found anywhere else (except maybe Lobste.rs)

8. I want to entertain myself and hopefully learn something. Usually, I succeed.

9. Maybe make the post and comment interactions a little bigger? I mistap and misclick fairly often.

10. Simple, efficient, and sane.

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