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Thoughts:

* Domains popping in when your mouse scrolls over something is annoying. Really annoying. My mouse is not my eyes - just because my eyes are on something does not mean my mouse is, and vice versa. And the popin ends up being movement, which is distracting. The same issue I have with the DDG redesign.

* Said domains popping in do not have a fallback without JS.

* Random icons (and in an icon font, none the less, which again, does not exactly fallback gracefully without JS). I much prefer "1 hour ago" than an icon of a clock. (And said icon of a clock doesn't even change given how old an article is! You have to mouse over it for that. And again, see above for things only showing on mouseover.)

* No way (that I can see) to sort/filter. For example, only seeing articles that were heavily penalized on HN.

* Bug: if you mouseover the photo icon to open the image, and put your mouse over the image and out of that submission, the domain never goes away.

* The feedback links... Don't actually allow you to submit feedback. And "I don't believe you" for negative feedback is condescending.

* Popover on first visit is extremely annoying, to the point where I won't visit it again until it is removed. (My browser clears most things on exit, so I'm assuming that it will pop up every time I restart my browser)



Hi, thank you for your time and your excellent feedback.

I agree with you on all points. I laughed when you said Ron Burgundy was condescending - I had not considered that. But again you are probably right.

The pop-over you mentioned at the end only appears if its hard coded into the link. I did this to the link as I believe new users will rather have more rather than less information on their first visit.

I will continue working on improving the site.




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