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

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Post by savef »

hericium wrote: post #177
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> To be fair, I wish HN had a substantially bigger font, for phone reading. On desktop, HN is the only website that I have "zoomed". 120%, btw.

Ah, mostly the same for me! (I'm very happy with it this way and wouldn't expect the site to change). But I do this on a couple of other text-heavy sites also, but not many.

So often a zoom will break complicated UI layouts and their JS interactions, so I appreciate the simplicity of this site allowing my user agent to customise my experience and still have it work.

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

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Post by Snacklive »

sjdz wrote: post #179
uxcolumbo wrote: post #102

At first I thought 'Not another one'. But this is really well designed and great to have the style customization available. Are you a designer? The upvote, bookmark buttons etc probably need a tooltip - not everyone might know what those icon buttons do. In fact I'd add a tooltip to all icons buttons. Also, when the width is set to 100% - the menu that appears after clicking on the more button (3 dots) is cut off - a…

Thanks for the feedback, glad you like it :) Will add tooltips to icons in the next update + fix that 100% width bug too.

Also i would really like an option to being able to collapse comments just clicking the comment box/card Excellent work ~

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

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Post by sjdz »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #175

One thing I'd like to see is the ability to filter out posts with less than X amount of points. At certain times of the day, the first page (30 entries) has ~30% of entries which are low points, and I usually prefer to avoid these. Thanks for your work!

Good idea, I will add that to a future version. Thanks!

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

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Post by crazygringo »

sjdz wrote: post #174
crazygringo wrote: post #109

It's very nice-looking! One deal-breaker for me, sadly -- having the collapse/expand and upvote/downvote buttons on opposite sides (left, right) of the page is way too annoying. When I read comments, I'm constantly voting and collapsing. Using my trackpad to jump back and forth is just too much. Current HN isn't great for that, but it's usually only traversing about a quarter of the page's distance.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to make the space in the comment header clickable to collapse/expand, which will reduce the distance a bit. Would that work for you? The other alternative might be to add a setting to move the collapse/expand arrow to be part of the icons on the right.

I would find it much more natural to have both expand/collapse and upvote/downvote on the left, simply because text is left-aligned.

I find any functionality pushed all the way to the right side to be harder to use, simply because it's not "together" with everything else on the left. Your eye has to do more work to match right-side content to left-side across a whitespace.

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

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Post by overflyer »

arafatamim wrote: post #122
overflyer wrote: post #118

Hey man, I installed the Firefox extension and I am loving it. However the Auto Dark Theme does not work and DarkReader does nothing at all on your layout. Having a dark version of this would be awesome :) Thanks for your hard work. I appreciate it! :)

It has a dark version already. Press the "aA" icon on the top right toolbar

Already found that. Thats what I meant with "Auto Dark Theme", however it does not work :).

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

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Post by tsol »

Akronymus wrote: post #127
uo21tp5hoyg wrote: post #23

I really like the current simple design of HN, my only issue with it is how ridiculously zoomed out it is by default. I've been viewing HN at 150% zoom for as long as I can remember.

For me, I dislike that it is not in dark mode without some userscript

A toggle switch would be very nice for night time reading.
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