[gryfft]

I think for much of the HN crowd, many efficacious engagement hacks will have a sort of "paradoxical reaction." [1] Changes that are "minor" frustrations to average consumers can be dealbreakers to us. For instance, I switched away from Chrome entirely when they took away the rolodex-style tabs on mobile. [2]

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_reaction
  2. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40772009

[Gigachad]

I’ve always felt it was the opposite. HN users put up with some pretty major inconveniences and will host their own FTP server and write scripts to interact with it rather than paying for Dropbox.

[gryfft]

Navigating one of those inconveniences gives the user more power, while the other disempowers the user.