> Hacker News works perfectly fine without Javascript.
keyword being "too".
> In fact, I don't think I've ever enabled Javascript here on Hacker News.
I mean, that's super, but it's just one more point in the column of how HN's population is out of touch with any regular person. It's really annoying to wait for the page reload on even a fast network, and good luck finding your place again if a thread is even moderately busy.
Ctrl f. But yes hacker news doesn't have the greatest UI.
Back to your main point. I don't think it's out of touch. It's different information or values. Do you think it's not annoying for me to not have JavaScript and have slow or broken pages? I know and feel the same thing, and I imagine anyone using no script does as well. It's just not worth it to me to let privacy be degraded for some speed.
I think this is due more heavily to being more informed about the situation than the average person, rather than different values. When Facebook starting getting in the news about all their privacy violations, Facebook MAU went down and the number of accounts deleted went up. That indicates that once people are aware of what is going on, they make similar choices about interacting with the companies.
The difference between many people on hacker news and the average populace is that we can both install something like noscript, and have a rough idea of how to interpret the options on it.
keyword being "too".
> In fact, I don't think I've ever enabled Javascript here on Hacker News.
I mean, that's super, but it's just one more point in the column of how HN's population is out of touch with any regular person. It's really annoying to wait for the page reload on even a fast network, and good luck finding your place again if a thread is even moderately busy.