Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO) • Hacker News Board

Re: Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

#161

Post by kamray23 » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:50 AM UTC

dncornholio wrote: post #80

kamray23 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow jesus. Opened HN with my accessibility checker. No recognisable structure. 33 spacers on the main page alone. 200+ contrast errors.

:) I thought it was bad but it is actually worse. Maybe accessibility is the argument to make, because my prayers always fell upon deaf ears.

It's weird because HN seems like it has a very simply document structure and would easily be made very accessible. But no, it's a horrible mess instead.

Re: Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

#162

Post by relaxing » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 11:49 AM UTC

rapnie wrote: post #29

For me the up- and downvote icons are too close together and I always have to pinch zoom to upvote (I don't downvote often). So prefer a bit more spacing between them.

Just pinch-zoomed to upvote this :)

Re: Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

#163

Post by relaxing » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 11:53 AM UTC

gHA5 wrote: post #67

What I really would like to have would be to collapse comment threads via a column that runs the length of the comment thread and is indented like its respective comment. This way I don't have to scroll to find the comment to collapse its thread, and clicking the column is easier. This is used in some subreddits in the old Reddit style, e.g. /r/de as can be seen here: https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/rcc9us/exper…

A little bit of UX like this would go a long way towards fixing the problem where the first root comment gets all the activity, because people get sucked in to one of many subthreads as they scroll past.