Just want to say how much I thank YCom for not f'ing up the HN interface, and keeping it fast.
I distinctly remember when Slashdot committed suicide. They had an interface that was very easy for me to scan and find high value comments, and in the name of "modern UI" or some other nonsense needed to keep a few designers employed, completely revamped it so that it had a ton of whitespace and made it basically impossible for me to skim the comments.
I think I tried it for about 3 days before I gave up, and I was a daily Slashdot reader before then.
I distinctly remember when Slashdot committed suicide. They had an interface that was very easy for me to scan and find high value comments, and in the name of "modern UI" or some other nonsense needed to keep a few designers employed, completely revamped it so that it had a ton of whitespace and made it basically impossible for me to skim the comments.
I think I tried it for about 3 days before I gave up, and I was a daily Slashdot reader before then.