The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better, by a lot. I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.
corvad 3 hours ago
I guess X never heard of the Streisand effect...
agnosticmantis 2 hours ago
Any user scripts that automatically redirect to a working instance?
We could stop thinking of them as walled gardens we're trying to get into and start thinking of them as quarantines for the Eternal September population.
delichon 2 hours ago
> quarantines for the Eternal September population
Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.
defrost 2 hours ago
FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account).
So that's at least strictly before 2009.
randallsquared an hour ago
Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?
bananaflag 10 minutes ago
Wow that's very interesting but it only works for the front page (and also only changes the order not the numbers), not for each comment page.
Maybe we should have a setting "count only votes before date yyyy-mm-dd" but this would probably make the site too dynamic (?) and consume a lot of resources.
Petersipoi 3 hours ago
Awesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few years
dadoum 2 hours ago
They would become links with only a wrong domain, so I am not very worried about that personally.
bigbadfeline an hour ago
> a bunch of broken links in a few years
Who cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.
