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Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News

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Post by bachmeier »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #94

The following is not any sort of critique on the author’s work. The design looks quite fresh, in fact. This is merely a tangential observation. Anyone else see the mock-up and think “this looks slow”? Logically, it’s not a defensible inference in the slightest. There’s nothing about this design that would necessitate performance tradeoffs. But that’s the barely-conscious, emotional first impression I had. I wonder if…

> Logically, it’s not a defensible inference in the slightest.

We have different views of "defensible". I imagine clicking something on that page and waiting for a response. I learned to make that association based on experience.

Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News

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Post by sjdz »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #86
sjdz wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's possible, but as I mentioned in another comment, building this as an extension has some added benefits [1]. > that way I don't have to bloat the browser's start-up time and don't have to "worry" about this extension spying on other websites, even though I realize it's unlikely No need to worry about that, as it's limited by the permissions specified in the extension manifiest. So this extension can only access n…

I wish this were more of an SPA with an account system/db of it's own, I'd even pay for a subscription (small one). I'd basically like there to be a mobile app and desktop version that no matter where I read an article, it's marked read. I use materialize and hckrnews now, if both of these could keep track of the same bookmarks, visited links, and maybe allow note taking or creating groups of saved things, that'd be…

Cool ideas! It would definitely be possible to build in a cloud sync feature at some point to enable those features.

Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News

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Post by sjdz »

dmix wrote: post #101

I've seen a hundred of these but this is quite nice, I'll give it a shot for a week. The configuration makes it much nicer, others have been too opinionated. One thing: it'd be nice to click the whole top header of the comments to collapse them, instead of clicking the far left toggle. Edit: also not seeing my comment score inline on the page header makes it difficult to know if I should check my comments for activit…

Thanks :) Will add the comment score. Clicking the header to collapse is a good idea, I'll get that working too.

Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News

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Post by sjdz »

joegahona wrote: post #92

I really like this! Just a subjective thing -- I would consider offering Verdana in a future release, for those (like me) who aren't yet ready to lose that flavor of HN. But all the other adjustments are very desirable to me so far. Regarding the name: The horse might be out of the barn, but calling this a "modern" HN sounds a bit too much like a value judgment to me, though I doubt you meant it that way (and I doubt…

Thanks :) Yes the plan is definitely to add more font selection, including Verdana for the classic look!

I'd like to eventually add a full theme editor to change all aspects of the UI.

Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News

#120

Post by sjdz »

jonny_eh wrote: post #115

Congrats, it looks very nice! One critical feature that this cuts from native HN is the changing colour of links already visited. I'll often click an article, then navigate back, and use the changed link colour to reorient myself on the page.

Thanks! Yeah I forgot that, will add a setting in the next update to change the color of visited links.
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