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by raesene9 309 days ago
It's interesting you suggest a two week sprint for this. How large do you think HNs development team is, do you know if they even have a single full time developer?

I don't but the lack of changes in the basic functionality of the site in the number of years I've used it make me feel that they may not have any/many full time devs working on it...
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perching_aix 309 days ago
I really don't think the site is like this because they lack capacity. It's pretty clearly an intentional design choice in my view, like with Craigslist.

But no, I do not have any information on their staffing situation. I presume you don't either though, do you?

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raesene9 309 days ago
Indeed I don't. However it we examine the pace of new features of the last several years (I can't think of a single way this site has changed over that time period), it's reasonable to surmise that there isn't a lot of development of the user accessible/visible portions of the site, and that leads me to guess that they don't have much in the way of dev. resources.
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