Designer News + Hacker News = The News

A lot of these redesigns share the common look of spacing everything out, which looks good. But I've gotten used to the compact layout of HN that lets me browse through stories really quickly.

Re: Designer News + Hacker News = The News

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Post by hk__2 » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 9:19 PM UTC

ktrgardiner wrote: post #3

The HN side goes from 19 to 21.

It goes from 18 to 20 for me.

Re: Designer News + Hacker News = The News

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Post by ahmetsulek » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 9:27 PM UTC

hk__2 wrote: post #6

ktrgardiner wrote: post #3

The HN side goes from 19 to 21.

It goes from 18 to 20 for me.

For now it skips the ASK HN news,

I didn't mean to release the project yet, just told one of my friends now it's on hn :) It's the second day on project, I will fix ASAP :)

Re: Designer News + Hacker News = The News

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Post by ahallock » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

chrischen wrote: post #5

A lot of these redesigns share the common look of spacing everything out, which looks good. But I've gotten used to the compact layout of HN that lets me browse through stories really quickly.

Yeah, it would nice (and probably simple to implement) to have an option at the top to toggle between condensed and uncondensed views.

Re: Designer News + Hacker News = The News

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Post by clicks » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

chrischen wrote: post #5

A lot of these redesigns share the common look of spacing everything out, which looks good. But I've gotten used to the compact layout of HN that lets me browse through stories really quickly.

Particularly the big annoyance in the latest version of UI/UX wave is the small fonts. I always zoom to about 150% and in instances where the pages are spaced out very little content is visible in one screenview. I just hope this phase passes soon and never comes back.

And to be clear, I have 20-20 vision.

Re: Designer News + Hacker News = The News

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Post by bulatb » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 9:33 PM UTC

I think the large, bold story numbers draw too much attention that would otherwise be focused on the headlines. What a story is about is more important, and contains more information, than its ranking on the front page.

Hacker News may not be all that pretty, but it's designed to bring out the important parts and communicate them quickly. Less relevant, less commonly accessed bits or information like numbers and usernames are available but don't stand out.