Looks nice but I dislike the animations. Also maybe clicking anywhere in a div should open up the comments?
I was hoping that comments would have been shown on click.
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#22Can you post?
TLDR: no.
From [1] "If people find it useful, I might add other things. Hope OAuth becomes available so I can add up-voting and comment adding."
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#23This looks good, the animation on hover doesn't add any value though.
My favourite HN client on phone is http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/. It's lean, fast and looks like a native app on the phone. I've added a shortcut to my mobile's home screen, using the 'Add to Home Screen' option in Chrome, which gives me a nice quick launch icon.
The downside of both these clients is that you can't login or post using them.
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#24One of the worst things you can do as a designer is to move an element around while the user is trying to target it with the cursor.
(This is also why I'm not terribly fond of the default animation of the OSX Dock)
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#25Looking good, only the score numbers might be a little too thin, and the margin on hover animation doesn't work for me. It distracts me from reading, becoming a bit annoying.
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#26Some comment section feedback: The horizontal indentation on the comments might be a bit aggressive, and each comment is taking up a great deal of vertical screen real estate. Further, the clickable "more" makes reading long comment threads difficult without a great deal of scrolling. It seems to be optimized for mobile viewing, which is good. Dobbs knows how I hate clicking tiny links with my fat fingers. But, when…
I have no problem with big links on desktop, but the comments should be smaller. I hate it when text-boxes simply stretch and the regular HN site does this too.
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#27Some comment section feedback: The horizontal indentation on the comments might be a bit aggressive, and each comment is taking up a great deal of vertical screen real estate. Further, the clickable "more" makes reading long comment threads difficult without a great deal of scrolling. It seems to be optimized for mobile viewing, which is good. Dobbs knows how I hate clicking tiny links with my fat fingers. But, when…
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#28Nice! The live update is sick!
What would make me use this instead of news.ycombinator.com every day however would be:
- the ability to hide stories you've already read (some box to tick like a todo list) or are not interested in. They take up so much space, so there is a lot of wasted space after 5 mins on the site and reading/seeing I'm not interested in the top stories. I don't want to click 'show more', I want new headlines to replace old unwanted headlines
- Color coding the actual divs to signify hotness and using size of divs to signify importance/upvotes would be nice. The font is so thin in the orange circles (and the spacing between them and the text) that I cannot read it in my peripheral vision and have to glance back and forth between titles and ranks
- hover movement is disturbing enough for me to navigate with keyboard instead of mouse
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#29Probably the best HN redesign I've seen yet to date.
Some light criticism:
1) decrease the padding between each story space, there's juuust a touch too much white space
2) the big attraction to HN is indeed the comments, so accessing or invoking the comments should be really easy. In your version, I have to click the comment icon or the comment numeral count link... why not instead have the entire space (excluding the story link) open up the comments?
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#30A separate page for an item's comments would work better for popular links.