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Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

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Post by mschoening »

Hacker News' design has a lot of personality and I would never recommend redesigning it (for the same reason I enjoy Craigslist's "design") but making it resolution independent and maybe even responsive sounds like a great idea.

Personally I prefer a slightly larger serif font when reading comments on here which is why I wrote a quick dotjs [1] script that now also replaces the upvote arrow GIF:

Preview: http://cl.ly/I3o0 Script: https://github.com/max/.js/blob/master/news.ycombinator.com....

[1] http://defunkt.io/dotjs/

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#172

Post by srbufi »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #65
jayfuerstenberg wrote: post #40

And please put more whitespace between links so us iPhone users can press on links without accidentally hitting the comments link. Thanks :)

On iPhone I always use - http://ihackernews.com/

Bless you, sir.

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#173

Post by tokenadult »

qw wrote: post #139
sesqu wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments

Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#174

Post by JackC »

coderdude wrote: post #30
alx wrote: post #29

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Could you give us some use-cases where it's not suitable? Thanks :)

When you want an icon that isn't one color (font-base icons like Font Awesome or using Unicode), or when you require a graphic with a high amount of detail. There isn't really a good, cross-browser solution for that that I'm aware of. SVG works to some extent but I don't think it's very easy to work with. Another instance where image-based icons win over font-based icons is when the icon has a lot of small detail. Li…

You could potentially detect it in Javascript (if there's no better way) by measuring the width of an off-screen element -- especially if you added a ridiculously-wide glyph to your icon font. Like "if this div isn't at least 3 times as wide as it is tall, my icons aren't rendering properly."

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#176

Post by coffeedrinker »

sudonim wrote: post #134
lucaspiller wrote: post #42

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> for a textual site the default font size seems too small. Maybe my eyes are just giving up. ++, although my eyes are giving up, and getting a high resolution / small screen size MBA didn't help.

There are a few Chrome plugins to improve the readability of HN. I personally use Georgify: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...

I use AutoZoom for Chrome. Although the fonts here are too small for me, so too at some other sites.

It is amazing how many sites have css that does not work properly when zoomed.

I can't even read HN on my iPad because of the font issue.

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#178

Post by pbhjpbhj »

tokenadult wrote: post #173
qw wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.

Ha, and there we go, so I couldn't reply to you (no reply link) within the discussion but I can by following the "link" link and then replying. What's that all about?

My main point would have to be that you have to work all of this out. Shouldn't it just be written in the FAQs. You could make the UI more helpful, like keep the reply link but disable it (eg with strike through) or have it popup a note "new comment: reply disabled for 5 minutes" or whatever. Or on pages with no downvote have a header comment in a box saying "downvoting disabled; all stories have down-voting disabled after 24 hours".

Gah, I have to stop before I get on to not having collapsible threads and the lameness of greying out comments and not having vote count displayed and ...

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#179

Post by [deleted] »

tokenadult wrote: post #173
qw wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.

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Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#180

Post by [deleted] »

tokenadult wrote: post #173
qw wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments

I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.

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