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Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#31
I find the favicons needlessly distracting and unhelpful. I suspect we probably use different parts of the brain for processing images and text, so it's a lot of different information at once.

My main gripes with HN UI are the expand/collapse and voting buttons are tiny on mobile. And it's very easy to accidentally hide an article by accident (it's a hassle to undo this).

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#33
post #5

For me, the only lacking feature of vanilla HN is dark mode. I wish they'd add that. Other than that, it's perfect.

Dark Reader extension does wonders for me.

I keep pointing this out every time dark mode comes up, so don't take it personally: embedded browsers (like the ones in RSS readers) cannot use extensions, and only native dark mode support in the site itself works there. It is _extremely_ annoying to get a white flash while reading news in the night time, and I really don't get why HN doesn't have a pair of CSS lines that would fix it for everyone.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#37
With normal HN, on the phone I get 12 items from home page. Your version shows me 10.

Overall it has 'more' spacing. Which I don't feel I need: I appreciate the high density of original.

did you add any 'additional' features? stuff lile 'kill file', per commemt bookmark/tag, different search features ( 'more like this', 'best of the day comments based on your liking') would gives some reason to switch

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#40
Personally, I like it. However, I like being able to comment and upvote more. At the same time, I'd be reluctant to say the least to hand over my login credentials. It could be quite cool to see this turned into a FOSS RES-style browser extension. Or maybe even a commercial product. I already paid for the HACK app.
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