My initial take… make it even more minimal. HN is almost spartan to a fault, just a hair above all text. This is objectively a good this.
Get rid of the white space, reduce the font size, remove the boxes around the posts, lose the italics and make the header a quarter of its size and finally stick to one font. That’ll get you closer to the hn aesthetic…
But all of that will be for not if you don’t moderate. All the graphic design (or lack there of) in the world will not replicate hands on thoughtful compassionate human moderation.
Hn is what it is because @dang is who he is. It’s a fine line to walk and biases will reveal themselves in abhorrent ways. Building communities is as much a spiritual journey for the maintainers as it is a never ending drudgery of minutia…
My initial take… make it even more minimal. HN is almost spartan to a fault, just a hair above all text. This is objectively a good this.
Get rid of the white space, reduce the font size, remove the boxes around the posts, lose the italics and make the header a quarter of its size and finally stick to one font. That’ll get you closer to the hn aesthetic…
But all of that will be for not if you don’t moderate. All the graphic design (or lack there of) in the world will not replicate hands on thoughtful compassionate human moderation.
Hn is what it is because @dang is who he is. It’s a fine line to walk and biases will reveal themselves in abhorrent ways. Building communities is as much a spiritual journey for the maintainers as it is a never ending drudgery of minutia…