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Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by bckr » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 6:02 AM UTC

timoteostewart wrote: post #6

Nice job, Tuan! Having written an HN interface myself, my hat off to you for seeing it through and sharing it. Building on Minor49er's comment about requests, a nice feature in your next iteration of Lipu might be to cache some or all of the details of the submission on your server side. Three benefits from doing that are: (1) you can choose how often you query firebaseio for fresh data to avoid hammering their serve…

Nice find. This is a great devlog (and I like the theme on this).

Bright future ahead

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by senectus1 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 6:14 AM UTC

bckr wrote: post #2

This sucks to say, but I don't like it very much. It lacks contrast and lacks space between lines. Additionally, clicking on the comments just brings me back to HN. Good job putting something out there.

yeah I'm not a fan of that over the normal one either.

but having said that I normally only ever access HN articles via RSS anyway, So I never would see either.

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by squarefoot » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 6:18 AM UTC

I find it really hard to read. The white background for starters, but also the lack of indentation which makes it hard to pick one post from the others. Colors too look wrong to me, plus alternating between them makes things even less readable; look at how the HN page makes it so easy to look at the post title by placing it just right of the post number (with the lower line indented for more convenience) and uses black to make it immediately recognizable.

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by rkagerer » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 6:58 AM UTC

Strongly prefer the original HN.

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by posix86 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 7:56 AM UTC

Hmm. I always considered HN to be one of the cleanest sites that displays dense info. Props for going through with the project though! I'm sure you learned a lot of useful things.

If you want some feedback: I'm hvaing a hard time distinguishing one post from another. Maybe changing the color of the author & comments links could change that? Maybe add some spacing, so that the title & metadata is grouped together? This id already starting to approach native HN though. :)

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by EricMausler » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 8:13 AM UTC

I dont know much front end, but does it really make sense that a style wrapper is only 5% CSS code?

Is CSS mostly deprecated now in favor of js libs?

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by hsblhsn » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 9:24 AM UTC

I have been trying to do the same thing. You can see my try at https://hn.hsblhsn.me/

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by iKlsR » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 10:28 AM UTC

A decent attempt but like others have said it's a bit cramped so just giving the text some breathing room would be a big improvement to your current copy.

For anyone else by far the cleanest, functional hn implementation is https://hckrnews.com

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by asmr » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 11:09 AM UTC

The interface is a little hard to look at and things feel squished together, and it also doesn't offer anything beyond the default page.

I've been browsing HN using hckr news for years now, it sorts submissions by time and has a really great UI/UX.

https://hckrnews.com/

Re: Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface

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Post by timoteostewart » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 1:26 PM UTC

hsblhsn wrote: post #17

I have been trying to do the same thing. You can see my try at https://hn.hsblhsn.me/

Very cool! I like the teaser of each link's textual content that you offer from the digest view. And pulling in the og:image is also a nice touch, IMO. And all in Go!