[andrewhillman]

The 'more' link is not what pisses me off. What really sucks is when you go to submit a thoughtful reply and you get hit with a bullshit expired event upon submission. Then you need to click 'back' open new window, and paste a fresh submission. I assume those who post long responses do so by firing up a text editor then pasting the response.

You would think this site would work flawlessly. Perhaps HN feels you shouldn't be on here unless you know the pitfalls. HN doesn't seem to respect the community. Would PG return to a site with such a shitty user experience? Absolutely not. I guess YC subscribes to "do as we say, not as we do..." when mentoring batches.

[wikwocket]

An alternative explanation is that perhaps HN is user-hostile because it respects the community. I sometimes get the vibe that HN is deliberately rough around the edges so that anyone who stays here and participates is doing so because they love the content and the community, not because the site is pretty or because they like gaining karma points.

Personally I'm of the opposite camp, that it's nice to make your app/site as easy on the eyes and sensibilities as possible, but then HN is not exactly trying to grow or get a million members or sell anything. It's just here to foster constructive discussion of hacker-related news.