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OMG, how very beautiful ! Is it fully automatic? Will it persist?
More importantly, by providing the lead/lede, I've found a few more pieces to read that I didn't know I wanted to read just from the headline.
Are you planning to keep running it? I hope you do, I can definitely see it becoming my default home screen while browsing. It’d be cool to see if you can wrap up the rest of HN, especially comments also. But I do realize that may be a lot of work.
Having worked in print newspaper production, this looks cool, but of course no real newspaper would ever have that much white space.
This looks really amazing! I particularly like that it makes good use of the width of an ultra-wide screen. While I wouldn't want it to replace the actual hackernews layout, I can really see it shine for discovering interesting articles whose headlines alone do not tell me enough to identify them as interesting (seems perfect for Friday afternoons). One suggestion: I would appreciate more visual hints to indicate whi…
Thanks for the suggestion! I added some more whitespace and some horizontal rules, what do you think of it now? (Please feel free to tell me it still looks terrible!)
Thanks for the quick adjustment! I'm already curious what new things I will find with this site.
Having text snippets from the first paragraph, and an image, give me waaay more information as to whether something's interesting enough to click. This is really, really nice.
A bunch of random thoughts, hopefully it's useful feedback:
- I don't care about it looking like a "paper", but I love the grid view with image+blurb. So if you could make the top stories the same size as the rest, and make all images color, I'd love that even more
- I find both the upvote count and hours ago added really useful, if you could find a way to include those back in
- Some blurbs are 15 lines long, others are 2. Instead of trying to break at a paragraph boundary, I'd prefer if they were all just a standardized 6-8 lines. I'm glancing just to see what the article is actually about (for when the headline is vague), I don't care if it ends at a sentence ending
- The bold "topic" thing you click on to get to the comments is clever in whatever ML you use to select it... but unfortunately is also meaningless and kind of distracting, so I'd prefer it without
But for real... I think that if you focused on making this a "rich" image+blurb feed for HN instead of the newspaper thing, you could become a super-popular interface for HN.
Kudos!