> We usually see many downfalls when companies redesign.
Exactly! I'm still salty about "new reddit."
We care about your redesign because we don't want to have to get used to a whole new less functional UX.
Exactly! I'm still salty about "new reddit."
We care about your redesign because we don't want to have to get used to a whole new less functional UX.
You can say what you want about them, but they managed to push out a conversion optimized interface for new users while still keeping their core group/addicts at bay, which is not easy.
New Reddit’s design was a great improvement if it weren't for the fact that its developers were and still are absolutely clueless. That paired with a user-hostile management made Reddit even worse.
But the redesign itself was not the issue, it was the implementation.
The difference with HN is that HN is not mainly for media. However HN isn’t great either. The button to collapse threads in on top of the thread in a 16x16-pixel touch target. Good luck finding it when you’re 12 comments down.
For being a text comment-only website, the HN experience is pretty poor. The only good thing HN has got going on technically is that it’s super fast. Heck it still doesn’t offer dark mode when it would literally be 7 additional lines of CSS.
Unfortunately that UX isn't the best because most sites linked to are slow, annoying or broken in some way. Imgur fixed that though.
This sounds like the exceedingly stupid javascript override popup view a primary click on links gives. It's meant to make it easy to return to the list and keep scrolling forever.
Try opening the links in new tabs, or hitting "refresh" after clicking. That'll give you the full page view.
That's designed in. It's not an implementation problem.