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Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews
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Re: Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews
#52I like it, but can we get a font with slightly less fiddly tiny details? They don’t work so well on a low-resolution computer display.
Is that better for you now?
Re: Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews
#53Looks nice overall. But Caslon is a bit blurry and hard to read at less than 18px on Windows with Cleartype enabled. I'd either switch to Georgia or bump up the size.
It seems this is a common theme. I switched to a sans stack, that should be easier to read, if not so pretty.
An aside, but one thing I love that both Safari and Chrome now do (at least, maybe others do as well) is remember the font size instructions for a site. So, if you bump up the font size -- next time you visit it keeps it at the larger font size.
Re: Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews
#54This is where I actually think Digg is better than HN and Reddit. Their content and community may not be nearly as good, but at least they ATTEMPT to improve their UI and general functionality. Soon I have been on HN for a year, and I do not think I have noticed a single change to the site. I know that interface is not everything and that once you get used to this simple one, you really get to like it, but I would ju…
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Re: Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews
#55This is where I actually think Digg is better than HN and Reddit. Their content and community may not be nearly as good, but at least they ATTEMPT to improve their UI and general functionality. Soon I have been on HN for a year, and I do not think I have noticed a single change to the site. I know that interface is not everything and that once you get used to this simple one, you really get to like it, but I would ju…
I'd suggest you educate yourself on the origins and goals of HN before you start complaining that it's not trying to compete with Digg.
I would _never_ want Digg and HN to compete. They are two entirely different sites. I was merely comparing their design philosophies, not their general purposes.
And I apologize if my post is seen as a complaint. I was trying to be constructive.
Re: Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews
#56Hoped this would be for the comments page -- would love one that didn't reorder the comments as they are rated. I find it desperately hard to find what's new when revisiting a comment thread, unless I've posted in it and can go in via "threads".
If you go to the about page[1], you'll find extensions for both chrome and safari. These extensions will highlight new comments, as well as make comment threads collapsible (a la reddit). http://hckrnews.com/about.html
These are great, but won't work on iPad, where I do most of my HNing. Server-side solutions are much preferred.
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#57Well done on taking your time out to do this. Congrats on launching. I find this one far less scannable. I see what you tried to do but it needs a bit more refinement.
Can you comment on why you find it less scannable? In fact, I find the opposite -- just the information I need, with no noise, on a clean white background. But, of course I'm biased.
I did add alternating backgrounds -- I'm not sure I'll leave it like that, but do you find that better for scanning?
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#58Please add alternate row colors! I find it difficult to read a list of links on plain white background.
I gave this a try. I tend to find alternate row colors pretty jarring, so I made it subtle. I might pull it though, so let me know what you think.
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#59In safari 5 the layout blows up (slightly) if you resize the text (it was too small for me).
This was related to the Firefox rendering bug, and should be fixed now.
Re: Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews
#60Great idea but the UI needs some work... Everything blends together. What I'd love is notifications when a comment receives a reply. Sign me up for that!