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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 hunter2_ »

Emigre_ wrote: post #36
hunter2_ wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the ridiculously low contrast of downvoted comments is a problem, let's say for a second that "you're meant to ignore it anyway, and we use low contrast to indicate it" is a reasonable idea. Then why is the main submission text lower contrast than the comments?!

I think the main text has a higher contrast than downvoted comments?… I’m mot sure, actually. If they receive lots of downvotes, their text colour becomes really pale.

I meant compared to normal comments, not compared to downvoted comments.

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

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

Not sure if this is appropos but I gave up on using the website in a browser. Interested to hear everyone's take on this but I've found the HACK app to be the most visually and functionally appealing, particularly in making the experience more similar to using Reddit through an app like Apollo.

Its cool that people are putting together their own solutions but there are options that have invented the wheel in a pleasing format already and might facillitate discovery and ease of use in a way that might not be as comprehensive.

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

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Post by hackerman123469 »

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

It's the same for me. I have it zoomed at 175% and I just zoomed out to 100% and instantly had to go back.

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

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Post by midenginedcoupe »

crtasm wrote: post #14

Looks good, might you consider crossposting it on https://greasyfork.org/ ? I suggest Violentmonkey (open source) over Tampermonkey (proprietary).

Uploaded. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/456820-hacker-news

I'll give Violentmonkey a go and make sure my script works in both.

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

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Post by midenginedcoupe »

rrgok wrote: post #20

I wish this had max-width: 60ch (or at least 80ch). I have some difficulties in reading and keeping my attention past 60-80ch line width wall of texts. Sometime I manually edit the CSS to make line shorter, so that I can keep reading.

It does set max-width of .comment and .toptext to 40em. Which means items on the page can nest across the screen, but each one will be no wider than that.

I took my cue from https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ where the majority of their design decisions are informed by thorough extensive user research. They set their text elements to a max width of 38em. That felt a little mean to me so I upped it to 40.

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

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Post by petodo »

belltaco wrote: post #6
petodo wrote: post #3

nice work, I wouldn't mind if this was HN redesign (especially like uncensored comments section), though it still doesn't fix obvious issue with useless HN homepage which is brigaded/manipulated, so one has to resort to alternative sites like Serializer or BestHackerNews to read HN posts

I use hckrnews.

Yeah I used hckrnews before Serializer, but top10/20 has too little content and top 50% or all too much, I find chronological Serializer very mild filtering better plus Serialized allows syncing across devices (smartphone/desktop) through unique URL you just save to bookmarks.

For Top charts I find BestHackerNews at heroku better, since you are not limited by amount and you can see all sorted by top in last 24 hours, week or month.

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

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Post by Emigre_ »

hunter2_ wrote: post #41
Emigre_ wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the main text has a higher contrast than downvoted comments?… I’m mot sure, actually. If they receive lots of downvotes, their text colour becomes really pale.

I meant compared to normal comments, not compared to downvoted comments.

Ah! True…

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

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Post by midenginedcoupe »

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…

Thanks. I've fixed the pointer issue.

And yeah, HN's html and css is shocking.

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