This is why I have my own idiosyncratic notion of how HN is very, very conservative.
The artistic taste, the aesthetics of personal tech blogs, even the aesthetic of this website itself. It's hyper-functionalist. It's all-about-the-business. Don't forget those with perceptual access needs.
And the colors, styles, and general artistic output of web media has been... all-about-the-business. Gone is the spirit of the Flash era. Tech is so business business business.
Hum... HN is minimalist. It has a large share of web site makers in its users, and the one esthetic strategy that makers can always agree on is minimalism.
The web in general is hyperoptimized. Sites that do not fit all the requirements for showing on Google searches do not get visitors, and do not count over the overall web esthetic. If you look deeper, it's easy to notice that the all-about-business of the web is very different from the all-about-the-business of HN.
Agreed, and in doing this we've robbed ourselves of what makes us human. We have built machines and now we seek to emulate them, see how in games like System Shock the evil AI is referred to by terms like 'perfect' or how its often said that 'robots don't make mistakes'.
Is that a criticism? Because if it wasn't the tone of your last line I'd take it as a compliment to the site. What would the value being non-hyper-functionalist, or to ignore access needs of some people? Are you trolling?
The artistic taste, the aesthetics of personal tech blogs, even the aesthetic of this website itself. It's hyper-functionalist. It's all-about-the-business. Don't forget those with perceptual access needs.
And the colors, styles, and general artistic output of web media has been... all-about-the-business. Gone is the spirit of the Flash era. Tech is so business business business.