For those on a wide-screen monitor, it would be nice if you used all of the empty real estate on the right. Move everything up to a single line and take what is currently your second-line content (comments, vote count, etc) and push it all the way to the right. It'll make it a lot easier to scan the headlines. For mobile devices you could always revert back to the stacked approach.
Hacker News Redesign
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#42One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.
Support this statement! Design that sacrifices content for sake of nice looking white-spaces can be used only on personal pages that nobody reads.
Whitespace doesn't exist just for the sake of being pretty. At least to me I find this mockup much more readable than the current design, as the space between links clearly separates them. This makes it much easier to read their titles.
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#43One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.
Really? On my computer it's the exact opposite. The HN design looks like the font is around 8pt; the redesign looks like it's around 11pt.
The real HN has 10pt titles and 7pt metadata, at least on my PC.
The redesign makes titles smaller and metadata larger, in effect making them the same size.
I think this is a bad change, because now there's little distinction between title and metadata.
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#44This fixes things that really aren't' broken and doesn't even attempt to fix the one big problem hacker news UI has.
The voting buttons are still too small.
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#45The the post title type is still too small.
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#46This is my hn: http://jsbin.com/aronar/1. It uses my stylesheet from: https://raw.github.com/bjourne/readable-userstyles/master/ha...
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#47There have been and will be many redesigns attempts of HN, when it actually doesn't need one. I wrote about it [1]. HN's design isn't neutral. It carries a message that is bigger than purely graphical appeal. Some UI elements could possibly be improved but these issues are probably too insignificant to spawn a whole redesign process that would impair HN's great usability.
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#48Personally I prefer the HackerNew Chrome extension. Really big links on the frontpage and collapsible comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
Oh wow, I'd always found myself wanting collapsable comments, this is nice.
Only thing is now for some reason chrome isn't displaying urls at the bottom of the page when I hover over links?
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#49Personally I prefer the HackerNew Chrome extension. Really big links on the frontpage and collapsible comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
Oh wow, I'd always found myself wanting collapsable comments, this is nice. Only thing is now for some reason chrome isn't displaying urls at the bottom of the page when I hover over links?
> Only thing is now for some reason chrome isn't displaying urls at the bottom of the page when I hover over links?
That's weird, probably on your end as it works fine for me.
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#50I prefer http://lessmeme.com/less.html