Almost 10% of us are mobile. On a small screen with slower bandwidth HN is a lot nicer than /. Almost annoying that even though the site is so efficient already the site icon and the logo aren't the same url or that the arrows are not unicode arrows or just one image rotates or ... :)
I don't know if I can agree with you about bandwidth. HN has been really, really slow lately. It's a constant and long-lived malaise. Slashdot loads much quicker.
Given that it does go to YC it makes even more sense to have it be the YC site icon so if the YC guys ever change that logo/icon HN would automatically get it. Then again a lot of mobile browser don't fetch the site icon so couldn't it just be a 'Y' in an orange box with no icon fetching at all?
Looking at the code one way to speed up the total site load time would be to have the main page be static and completely cachable. onload have it fetch a list of articles and populate the main page. This way it would fetch the articles and images all at the same time v.s generating the main page, and then fetching the resources.
In other words, Slashdot sent fewer people, but they stuck around a little longer.
His hunch is that it relates to the story. My hunch is that HN users usually have many links to read through on any particular visit, whereas Slashdot's post level is low enough that you can spend 10 minutes on a single item. They're pretty chalk and cheese as far as experiences go.
That's a good point, although the question is on HN and SD, what % of items do users actually click on? While HN has far more single news items, Slashdot has a lot of comments, and the articles themselves are longer. Apples & Oranges to be sure.
Or perhaps it was people like me who had been away for the summer and had missed Taco leaving Slashdot, so when faced with the story when click-crazy attempting to find out what had happened.
Are stetsons, really cool? I thought that was fezzes
My employer (a public school system) has blocked everything but IE9 on port 80 to keep students from using proxies/tunneling/[other firewall avoidance method].
Does it really matter what browser you use to view HN? It's not like it has any modern requirements for proper use. I happen to use Chrome to view HN only because I setup a "clean" Chrome install for a handful of news sites I visit. I could have easily done the same for IE and it wouldn't change a single thing. Maybe I'm grumpy today but this seems like a waste of debate-energy.
My fault...I was grumpy, thanks for apologizing although you totally didn't need to. I love the debate here but grow tired of the old browser war subject.
Had something similar happen at my last job, and although that wasn't the reason I quit, it didn't say very much about the working conditions that led me to look elsewhere. Funnily enough, the same firewall flagged a corporate press release as "pornography" and notified my boss I was looking at naughty bits, when in fact I was looking at something about the F-35.
I've never had trouble (so far at least) with HN, but I frequently need to switch to my filter-avoidance proxy for various HN links. Ironically, I am using proxy-avoidance software to get around a "blocked - category: proxy avoidance" message.
There was someone squatting the username and they posted in the last Taco HN submission asking Malda to contact them via email (listed in their profile) to claim the account. He may not have seen that or just not mentioned in this write-up.
As CmdrTaco says, two things reveals that HN users are a little more 'on the edge': more Chrome users, more mobile users. BTW, HN seems to have also _more_ Safari users, even if he says the opposite.
Subjective. I use Firefox because it's a more stable, modern, and featureful browser than Chromium in my opinion. That doesn't make one of us more "on the edge" than the other.
You're basically saying that since one community prefers strawberry ice cream to chocolate, they're more modern somehow.
The article posted 4 days ago ("The Slashdot Effect from the Other Side"), is pretty clearly a different article from this one ("Then Along Came Hacker News").
