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1. make the text bigger and bolder
2. cut out colors
3. less padding on everything
4. the "numbering of the post" matters very little to me. it doesn't need to be so prominent
We now that it is an ordered list so we don't really care much about the story number.
The most important thing on the page should be Story title > Story source / Submitter / Comments
I like the idea of having the top 20 of both websites side by side though.
You could also consider having some way to load more stories, there's more to hackerne.ws than just the first twenty.
It feels like these design sites are offering design for design sake instead of designing something usable on a daily basis. This is one area where HN has done quite well in my books. Once our arrows are unicode we're set. :)
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.
To be fair, even places that should know better, like Mozilla Thunderbird and Valve's Steam client, are impossible to increase fonts in or are destroyed when you force them to.