Hacker New with Semafor UI • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker New with Semafor UI

#11

Post by bloqs » Thu, May 25, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

I think the lack of comments, post information like time, are either not there or not very discoverable. The colour scheme looks like it was chosen at random. The portraits for users are definitely chosen at random

Re: Hacker New with Semafor UI

#12

Post by debarshri » Fri, May 26, 2023, 5:13 AM UTC

PKop wrote: post #5

Why not use proper anchor tags to show URL on hover (and every other function that actual links provide)? Not great to obscure where you're navigating to on a site with many external links.

It is a good idea. Will do.

Re: Hacker New with Semafor UI

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Post by debarshri » Fri, May 26, 2023, 5:18 AM UTC

bloqs wrote: post #11

I think the lack of comments, post information like time, are either not there or not very discoverable. The colour scheme looks like it was chosen at random. The portraits for users are definitely chosen at random

Color scheme was not random, it is based on the semafor UI. This is just an experiment. I thought it would be fun little experiment to replicate semafor UI with hacker news content. I think I'll change the random portrait image to something else in next iteration. My goal for next iteration is to innovate stuff on top of semafor experience.

Re: Hacker New with Semafor UI

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Post by debarshri » Fri, May 26, 2023, 5:22 AM UTC

zerojames wrote: post #3

I really like this! How do you decide the positions of each post? What gets the center spot above the fold? The HN submission with the most upvotes?

Thank you very much. You words are kind. So the way I approached it was that, the moment you open the page you should be able to see all the top posts that you see on hacker news. The hero post is the top post in HN, all the posts with images are position 2 to 6 in HN. And rest of the elements are divided by 3 and organised that way.

Re: Hacker New with Semafor UI

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Post by debarshri » Fri, May 26, 2023, 5:27 AM UTC

dicytea wrote: post #9

Assigning random stock portraits as the users' profile pictures isn't a very nice thing to do IMO.

Thanks for your feedback, will change it.

Re: Hacker New with Semafor UI

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Post by debarshri » Fri, May 26, 2023, 10:28 AM UTC

kamikaz1k wrote: post #7

I didn't know what Semafor was. Turns out it's a new site called Semafor[1]. And their team blogged about it[2]. [1] https://www.semafor.com/ [2] https://al-lucca.medium.com/how-weve-designed-the-semafor-ex...

Thank you for sharing this.