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Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

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Post by Beltalowda »

I have the following in Stylus:

  body      { margin: 0; color: #000; background-color: #eee; }
  #hnmain   { background-color: #fff; box-shadow: 0 0 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2) } /* Better colours */
  .itemlist { padding-left: .5em; }
  td        { color: inherit; }
  .togg     { float: left; margin-right: .5em; } /* Collapse button to the left */
  .comment  { line-height: 1.4em; }              /* Bit more line-height */
The thing I miss the most is the ability to clearly cite/quote things, whether it's other posts or something from an article. Yes, you can use ">", maybe wrapped in italics, but I find it pretty unclear, especially for longer texts. You can have some user CSS or whatnot to clarify that, but that won't work for the majority of folks reading your post.

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

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Post by allarm »

Nice, thank you.

> downvoted comments no longer light gray text and hard to read

I don’t understand the reasoning behind this design decision. There’s often long comments threads starting from a downvoted comment and it’s super difficult for me to read it.

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

#23

Post by mrj »

This is cool, thanks for this! I have added

      @media (min-width: 768px) {
        body {
          padding: 0 40px;
        }
      }
because it felt crowded on a desktop screen. I do feel like removing the :visited color difference is a usability negative.

Also the 'add comment' input isn't a button so it doesn't get a normal pointer:

      input[type='submit'] {
        cursor: pointer;
      }
HN's table layout makes it tough to do normal things you'd expect on a site like this.. kinda surprising to see a no-kidding table layout these days. It brings back bad memories. Thanks for posting.

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

#24

Post by ShockedUnicorn »

mrj wrote: post #23

This is cool, thanks for this! I have added @media (min-width: 768px) { body { padding: 0 40px; } } because it felt crowded on a desktop screen. I do feel like removing the :visited color difference is a usability negative. Also the 'add comment' input isn't a button so it doesn't get a normal pointer: input[type='submit'] { cursor: pointer; } HN's table layout makes it tough to do normal things you'd expect on a sit…

Those are some good changes, I also change to something like:

    a:visited {
        color: gray;
    }
to help see which items on the front page I've clicked on

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

#25

Post by Aethylia »

livre wrote: post #16

Try to not recommend Tampermonkey, it is closed source, slow, bloated and a bit sketchy, uses Google Analytics and right now the privacy policy link in their website isn't working for me (redirects to the home page). There are better, faster, less bloated and open source alternatives, like Violentmonkey which now has a reasonable privacy policy ( https://violentmonkey.github.io/privacy/ ). Btw thanks for the script,…

Completely agreed on avoid Tampermonkey, but Violentmonkey fails to detect the page on one of my scripts very often. If I refresh it works. This is a match with no wildcards and just a simple path after the URL.

Perhaps a simple bug, but doesn't give me much faith in the project.

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

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Post by justsomehnguy »

That's what the zoom for.

I have HN set to 130% and it's fine.

Please, stop messing with the font size, every time I see 1/3 of my FullHD monitor set with 28pt+ text (and barren wastelands on other 2/3) I really want to slap someone over TCP/IP.

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

#28

Post by anhncommenter25 »

tutfbhuf wrote: post #26

I think someone should tell dang that the HN news font is too small. If hundred of people on HN complain about the small font size (including me), then the font size should be increased IMHO.

This is the only website I have browser zoom set up for. I've acclimated, so I just now peeked back at 100% zoom. my god... it's like the entire website is written in subscript

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

#29

Post by barnabee »

anhncommenter25 wrote: post #28
tutfbhuf wrote: post #26

I think someone should tell dang that the HN news font is too small. If hundred of people on HN complain about the small font size (including me), then the font size should be increased IMHO.

This is the only website I have browser zoom set up for. I've acclimated, so I just now peeked back at 100% zoom. my god... it's like the entire website is written in subscript

I use most sites at 90% or below, HN is the only site I keep at 100% (across mobile, laptop, and desktop monitors).

Information density is seriously undervalued these days.

Re: Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible

#30

Post by livre »

Aethylia wrote: post #25
livre wrote: post #16

Try to not recommend Tampermonkey, it is closed source, slow, bloated and a bit sketchy, uses Google Analytics and right now the privacy policy link in their website isn't working for me (redirects to the home page). There are better, faster, less bloated and open source alternatives, like Violentmonkey which now has a reasonable privacy policy ( https://violentmonkey.github.io/privacy/ ). Btw thanks for the script,…

Completely agreed on avoid Tampermonkey, but Violentmonkey fails to detect the page on one of my scripts very often. If I refresh it works. This is a match with no wildcards and just a simple path after the URL. Perhaps a simple bug, but doesn't give me much faith in the project.

That's a shame, never happened to me, have you tried changing it to an include or adding a wildcard at the end? The project has been active for a very long time, I've been using it since it was only an Opera 12 extension, the developer seems very responsive, try reporting a bug.
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