[agumonkey]

It's a counterintuitive concept that most of the web doesn't get. Their features have no deep value. I, we know HN is backward, flawed, limited.. it's fugly it's bad, crooked, a shame, laughable, it's whatever. Yet we come back.

Reddit used to be like that.. search feature was lame, ui was bland .. but the subs and spirit was way so much more important it even made the flaws something you were attached too. It's a very human trait actually.. you know that some stuff gives you so much, you start to like the limitations.

[tshaddox]

> Their features have no deep value. I, we know HN is backward, flawed, limited.. it's fugly it's bad, crooked, a shame, laughable, it's whatever. Yet we come back.

The fact that some people keep coming back despite legitimate problems with the website's design is hardly an argument for not solving legitimate problems.

[agumonkey]

but are they problems ? will that change the reason people come here ?

see it as a kind of filter in a way

[tshaddox]

Basic usability and accessibility is a pretty awful thing to defend as a “filter.”

[agumonkey]

ok, i'm stretching it but still, the reality is that people keep on using HN and the convos are good (was better before but alas)