Hacker News Redesign • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by a235 » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:32 PM UTC

inetsee wrote: post #5

One 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.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by vblord » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:33 PM UTC

lignuist wrote: post #16

Any redesign should make the voting buttons significantly larger. It is really hard to hit them on a tablet.

lol. I've been reading hackernews for years and didn't even know there was a voting button

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by zybler » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:34 PM UTC

I kinda prefer http://cheeaun.github.com/hackerweb/#/ though.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by gdltec » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:35 PM UTC

javipas wrote: post #4

I usually visit http://hckrnews.com , I like the clean design there... But yours is a nice effort

Nice, clean and easy on the eyes. Showing the right information in the right place, cool.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by oskob » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:37 PM UTC

Same but different. And ugly?!

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by danso » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:37 PM UTC

rmrfrmrf wrote: post #17

cake wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does by making important elements stand out (such as author, comments...). Bigger arrow which is sometimes tricky to hit. The colors kinda kills the eyes though.

Author (submitter, really) and comments are the last two things I care about.

Yes, the nice thing about HN is the de-emphasis of the submitter...the content should stand on its own, not on the authority of whoever submitted it.

Number of upvotes is also irrelevant to emphasize. This attribute is inherently reflected in the vertical position of the item.

Edit: oops, OP did not emphasize upvotes. I'm ambivalent about holding number of comments...again, the number of them can mean several conflicting things

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by JimWestergren » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:38 PM UTC

Why the obsession with tiny fonts?

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by james-skemp » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:40 PM UTC

denysonique wrote: post #12

Zooming in breaks the layout.

Perhaps related, on a Nexus 7 titles that wrap cause the comments line to lose their indentation.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by growt » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:40 PM UTC

I use this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

It's probably not the prettiest but I like it.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

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Post by james-skemp » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:42 PM UTC

lignuist wrote: post #16

Any redesign should make the voting buttons significantly larger. It is really hard to hit them on a tablet.

Agreed. Having feedback that the vote counted would be helpful as well. When I was getting used to my new tablet I'd select them, so they'd vanish, but moving or touching elsewhere would show the buttons again. Odd.