Ice
If you could, how would you personally improve the UX of this site?
⚫ Aaron
A cutline somewhere on the replies page to better indicate which ones haven't been read yet. I think any small emphasis would be a huge help :)
🗿 Simohamed
Toggle dark theme through settings as I don't know how to change color schemes is Linux. I also couldn't write this earlier i.imgur.com/qAfoFN... otherwise known as a slash punctuation mark.
🐣 Smitha Adishesh
Agree!
Will Freeborn
Introduce a minimum word count for replies maybe (~24 characters)?
Thomas Petersen
I would open up the design a little. Like this : dropbox.com/s/xkgb... and collapse threads.
💯 Shivansh Rustagi
markdown support!
🐙 Chris Silverman
Sounds silly, but I don't understand how the "replies" function works at all. I'll see a thread with something like "8 replies", and when I click it, I expect the replies to drop down under it in a clear hiearchy. They don't seem to do that, and I don't see the number of replies that the link indicates.
🪓 Carlos Cortes
This would be awesome
🤮 Chalupa Gordito
to not have this be the highest ranking topic. but nice work on the site - I do love to see people doing social media startups.
William Barksdale
I don't like having to click in to reply, all the back button is a bit strange after i've jumped into a thread to reply to it.
🧞 Bit
the ability to change text size? the site does work well even if i set zoom level to 120% but the default text is too small on my screen
😏 Yt L.
Updating it to be a bit more efficient in terms of use space on desktop. Consolidating "trends" like Twitter when there's enough traffic.
👻 Dan
1. allow line breaks in replies with a shortcut (ctrl-return?). 2. add an actual submit button to replies. It's unclear that entering will submit the reply versus add a new line. 3. larger font
🗿 Simohamed
You can do line breaks in textareas with shift+return. It won't persist here, though. +1, however. I like the font as is. You can ctrl-plus on your browser or use Stylus chrome extension to change the CSS persistently.
🥝 Mr
collapse threads, center content like twitter so I don't have to slightly turn my head, simplify navigation (notifications don't need to be separated and are very noisy), also what does the green dot do?
☕ Christopher
I hate to pile on with the same answers others are given but the minimalist approach is definitely the way to go and making all sections of the threads independently collapsable would go a very long way.
♨️ Adeeb Khan
Along with this, make the thread comment stuff stretch to the right more. There's no reason to not use the space. I know that's more UI, but it would go a long way.
👓 John Pham
Being able to collapse or mark top-level threads as read
🛡️ Cyrano
I honestly like it so far. I don't use social media beyond lurking on Reddit, but so far it's simple enough for me to like using for commenting and posting. Though, replying gets a little confusing for me. Also, I noticed that one post in Trending has a lot of comments. It'd be cool to be able to collapse the big chunk of comments.
🤙 Adam 99
Maybe a way to like things?
Daedalus
won't a "like" feature kinda introduce public pressure?
🤙 Adam 99
Totally get the downsides of likes, but it's a good way to gauge the quality of a post (up/downvotes serve the same purpose). I think some way of crowdsourcing a quality measurement would be helpful
Mihail
it's awesome as it is. forces you to actually read the threads and respond. like a normal conversation.
📉 Bill
Very true instead of focusing on massively upvoted content by others you get to determine for yourself
👉 Léo
To be fair people don't always respond with words in an actual conversation. There is a lot that you can say with facial expressions and gestures.
😏 Yt L.
One downside to not having a like feature is that it's an inducement to making "Good point" style comments that are otherwise communicated with "like".
🗿 Simohamed
Yes. HN-style where only OP gets to see the amount of likes. It's a good way to acknowledge people's replies.
Ice
I feel that, but I think one of the core ideas of this site was the lack of popularity scores (likes, followers, shares etc)
🤙 Adam 99
Yeah I think that's awesome - maybe a different kind of feature that I can use to quickly let the poster know I appreciated their post
☕ Christopher
I think you are still kind of missing the point. The absence of popularity counters aren't for the sole reason of obfuscating if a person or their post is well received or popular. There's also a culture that this site is trying to attract that is against the detrimental idea of deriving self-esteem and shots of serotonin that's associated with social praise. Our main source of validation should not be coming from strangers on the internet.
👉 Léo
I completely agree with what you're saying, but I still think there should be space for a "reaction" feature. I am thinking something like github, but do not make the counters public
🤔 David
A platform like this which only shows reply counts is something I'd prefer, similar to some of the early php boards where you knew who was active based on post count
☕ Christopher
I agree, I think features like reply counts would be useful to identify active users and discussions without explicitly showing bias.
🧔 Justin
I prefer it without it! One of the reasons I used to like 4chan (10 years ago) in spite of the offensive content and anonymity was that people didn't try to gain the approval of others. I think you end up with more genuine interaction that way, though with 4chan you get a lot more than just that, of course.
🐙 Chris Silverman
Agreed. I think the "save" function is really smart, since on Twitter a lot of times, I use "like" more to bookmark something.
🗿 Simohamed
In my experience, that only promotes being obnoxious or controversial to have people reply to you. HN hidden likes are the way to go.
👁️ Mbladra
I think the #replies might just be a higher effort version of that metric
John Noble
No meme support.
🤮 Chalupa Gordito
fuck memes
Mihail
So far i'm impressed by the UX. I'd like to be able to see more context (original post + replies) in the search section. The replies on their own don't mean much without the context.