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I always thought that HN occasionally bugged out
by IndigoIncognito 3y ago
I always thought that HN occasionally bugged out
- isodev 3y agoMe too. Or that they're A/B testing or a new layout or something.
- kome 3y agoIt's incredible how for many people this had no meaning, while for me it was immediately clear. Semiotics is a complex art, and perhaps this signal was a bit too subtle for many.
- mike_hock 3y agoIt was clear to me, but only because the first time I saw it, the top post was "XYZ has died."
- kome 3y agobut I guess it's also cultural... a black band for mourning it's a very eurocentric thing. I am not sure if it would make sense in other contexts. (but i really don't know)
- vlabakje90 3y agoIn India, China and Japan the color associated with death is white, so it's pretty eurocentric indeed.
- rzzzt 3y agoPosts where the title starts with "<name>, <occupation>" gives me a sense of unease each time I see one.
- michaelt 3y agoA few years ago, I saw a social media prank of posting a photo of an author - say, George RR Martin - with the caption "Renowned American fantasy George RR Martin at age 74, at his home in New Mexico yesterday. Martin's best known series, A Song of Ice and Fire was adapted into the television series A Game of Thrones."
- dividedbyzero 3y agoI've understood the meaning pretty quickly too, and I think it's a very nice gesture. If there isn't such a post (on the first 2-3 pages max) however, as has happened a few times, it's just a mystery death ribbon.
- brandall10 3y agoIt could be confusing for some as it's selectively applied. There are only 15 names on the shown list but there are likely 2-3x that many which spent the better part of the day on the front page over the past 7 years.
- deprecative 3y agoIt's just annoying to me. It looks like the website is broken. I'll be trying to add it to uBlock or something. If it had text then maybe I'd keep it. As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful. Poor UX.
- j16sdiz 3y agoAgree. Tried to uBlock it too. I think a HTML comment explaining why would have stopped me.
- IndigoIncognito 3y agoI also tried uBlocking it, but I ended up removing the whole webpage so I left it alone
- internetter 3y ago> As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful It's a nice gesture to people who likely had some impact on lots of our lives
- deprecative 3y agoFor sure. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have some form of communication toward that end, either. What I mean is that the black border appears as if there is something wrong with the webpage. That is not clear. I am not saying that the idea of what it is trying to communicate is bad or wrong in any way. I meant that it is unclear as presently implemented.
- adamckay 3y ago> As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful. A ribbon [1] or armband [2] is a really common and subtle way of symbolising mourning, I'm quite surprised people aren't more aware of this practise. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_ribbon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_ribbon 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_armband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_armband
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- keepamovin 3y agoIt was immediately clear to me.
- smcleod 3y agoI never would have guessed a black menu bar / banner on a website would be triggered by someone dying. Not saying it’s a bad thing in any way - I just wouldn’t have any reason to relate the two things without reason.
- mettamage 3y agoIt actually was asked to dang to create the black bar this time [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011421
- fragmede 3y agoWhether dang would have done that without that comment is unknown.