I love that as an "end user", I can easily choose to have (or not) this degree of customization by simply using (or not) an addon like this and HackerNews itself (due to it's simplicity of design) does not get in the way of this at all. Just one more reason that HN's design is basically perfect. Thanks much to both the author of this addon, and to HackerNews dev(s) for contributing to a "better Web" for all.
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#152Why? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Thus the reason it's nice that it's packaged as a browser addon. Easy for those who don't like or want it to simply never install it.
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#153I like this, but I would love it even more if there was a theme with a background gradient - maybe navy blue at the top to dark grey.
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#154I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :) But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
I love it. I wonder if it's possible to do this by proxying requests to HN instead of a Chrome extension -- 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, it's good principle to not have to give this permission.
> it's good principle to not have to give this permission.
Well consider that when you go to a proxied version of HN, you're essentially giving an opaque server "permission" to view all your traffic it sends to HackerNews... but you can't verify what it's doing with that
At least this extension states exactly what permissions it needs, and I can inspect it and see what it's doing...
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#155The 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…
Yes, as soon as I saw "Modern UI" I rolled my eyes and thought of common modern web components and how annoying they can be.... loading spinners, animations, annoying transitions.
I was also pleasantly surprised at the speed and snappiness. It must of taken some restraint to keep it so fast
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#156The 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…
For me it's the word "modern" makes me think it'll be slow and unnecessary, I think it's just the fact that a lot of apps titled "modern" are slow bad that made us think this when we see the word. (OP's app is decent tho)
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#157Why is this a browser extension not a web app on its own domain?
Also curious if there's any flaw in the official HN web app you see that incentives you to make this.
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#158Looks good! Biggest appeal for me is that it provides dark mode without needing to use a third party webapp or a CSS customization extension with broad permissions requirements.
Some things I noticed: changes to the font size/width/line height don't seem to persist between the comments page and the front page. On top of this, the bars don't have clear numerical values so it's hard if you make any tweaks on them to match the settings across pages. ALSO I got kind of out of hand with those settings (line height in particular) and wanted to return to the default, but there's no reset button as far as I can tell.
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#159Hi, are you familiar with https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news ? I'm currently using it
It has some features like, if I select a part of a comment and hit reply, it will reply quoting that part
edit: oh, you're charging for it
anyway, my feedback is: there's a slow loading time whenever I open a link and I don't understand this
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#160I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :) But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
To be fair, I wish HN had a substantially bigger font, for phone reading.
That's about my only complaint.
Oh, and way bigger links for my big thumbs