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Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by danmaz74 »

molecule wrote: post #4

I've been using this for awhile now as my primary HN front-page interface, for several reasons: - easier to read - mobile-browser friendly - auto refreshes - preserves articles that make it to the front page, and in (reverse) order of the time they made it to the front page, so no need to constantly check the front page and parse all of its contents to see if new articles are posted cf. http://www.hckrnews.com/about.…

I generally like the original interface, but I hate to have to re-scan all the titles in the home page to find out which ones are new. So I built this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by laumars »

pwnna wrote: post #8

I still like http://hn.premii.com

oh wow that is good.

I don't mind the classic HN layout - in fact I kind of like it because it's clean way to present information. And all the other designs of HN have added nothing but a reskin. Where as that one actually contributes a original (to HN) ideas itself.

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by eball »

molecule wrote: post #4

I've been using this for awhile now as my primary HN front-page interface, for several reasons: - easier to read - mobile-browser friendly - auto refreshes - preserves articles that make it to the front page, and in (reverse) order of the time they made it to the front page, so no need to constantly check the front page and parse all of its contents to see if new articles are posted cf. http://www.hckrnews.com/about.…

Funny how it still shows the link to the below story that got buried by the flamewar detector.

"I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612854

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by triplesec »

I welcome this, but the UI confuses immediately: what's top 10 and top 20? and top 50%? No obvious explanations as to what the referent of "top" is! No scales, no FAQ.

Also, I want to know what the settings are compared with the "official" HN frontpage ordering.

"about" is broken, where I had hoped to find a FAQ

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