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Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by silvestrov »

1) Get rid of all the margins. I'm not here to look at postcards, I'm here to read text. old.reddit is good.

2) Font is too small and light. Make subject font much bigger. The 2nd line is not nearly as important as the title, so title should be much bigger. (your darkmode is better at this than light mode). Personally I prefer Verdana to AppleSystemFont as the latter is very light.

1+2) The posting page has too much vert space between posts and too small font. I'm here for the text.

3) I don't care about icons. They don't help me to decide "do I want to read this posting".

My layout design: https://imgur.com/a/uBPb2pC

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#52

Post by oldestofsports »

What I think is better:

- Dark mode feature

- search might be useful.

What I think is worse:

- More spacing

- Menu missing threads, past, comments, jobs and submit.

- Icon buttons.

Possibly unpopular opinion, but I think text based buttons are much faster to locate while icons require more effort to understand. Icons only make sense to you when you already know what it is supposed to represent

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#53

Post by ranger_danger »

exitb wrote: post #47
ranger_danger wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark Reader extension does wonders for me.

Just tried it and it makes the vote buttons disappear (mobile Safari).

Seems to work fine for me on firefox and chromium:

https://0x0.st/KQVm.png

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#54

Post by krapp »

rcarmo wrote: post #38
unkeen wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really do not understand why they don't.

Me neither. It's a running joke of sorts.

Given how pedantic and cargo-culty the HN community can be about even the tiniest detail of the layout here, it doesn't surprise me that the mods don't make it a priority. The arguments about implementation details and edge cases would be ceaseless, and people would clutch their pearls about HN "turning into Reddit."

Also dark mode seems way too modern a feature for a forum whose entire aesthetic is frozen in the 1990s. Dark mode doesn't directly improve the signal to noise ratio or quality of conversation.

Maybe the best solution is to just let everyone use whatever plugins or browser scripts they want to and leave HN as it is.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#55

Post by Gualdrapo »

Note that the HN hivemind loves crammed, almost unreadable text content, so the feedback you're getting is more than expected.

From my part I see this kind of exercises quite often, but I happen to like this exercise. Actual good content density and the favicons are actually a good idea since they let you know where a link would take you to.

The only downside I saw (for me) is that article titles, in the article pages, are too big.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#56

Post by hoechst »

idk how you would define "no tracking", but this is using vercel insights, a tracking tool.

altought i prefer the default HN interface, i think the ui is generally fine and you did a good job and avoided overengineering.

with a text heavy page like HN, the most important thing is imo to carefully choose a font family and font properties (line-height, letter-spacing, etc.). as is, the default HN does a better job with this but leaves a lot of room for improvement as well.

personally, i'm using a few lines of css to add dark mode to default HN and zoom in to 125% cause the default font-size ist too small for me (an old person).

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by wltr »

rava-dosa wrote: post #32

Its really good modern, loved it. Don't get disappointed with people's comments

It’s many times better, but the original website is so mediocre that any implementation is better at something, at least. I’m getting a good laugh reading all this ‘the original is so good’ praises. Just increase the font sizes on mobile and see how it’s broken.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

#60

Post by jemiluv8 »

The comment section not being collapsible is my main pain point. Just wished I could skim the top three most voted top level comments and then look at others. Instead I get sucked into this wilderness of a single thread and never quite easily viewing other top level threads
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