I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous.
- To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have to go through the FAQs?!
- Update a comment and you get redirected to the same form with no message.
I really don't get why a site who's target audiance is web developers and hackers has such terrible functionality on their site. Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?
- There is no search function anywhere
- Go back far enough in the news listings and it just stops. No explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=15
- To find the formatting guide for posting comments you have to go through the FAQs?!
- Update a comment and you get redirected to the same form with no message.
I really don't get why a site who's target audiance is web developers and hackers has such terrible functionality on their site. Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?