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Re: Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Honestly, I personally feel that “better” is a lazy and un-imaginative term (in general, not against your thoughts) when one lacks a definite goal to achieve. Perhaps, “A better alternate User Experience for HackerNews.” Better, better, be better with an improvement/enhancement against the comparison value.

As for the “UI lacking”, I have added some minimal custom styling catering to my personal preference - some subtle smooth corners, paddings/spacings, author highlights, width constraint, etc. Even that, I’m tempted to nick it and get used to whatever it is.

Not the best nor optimized but here are the styles

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tdkzn5zhm218lvggl91l5/browser...

Re: Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?

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Post by hu3 »

teitoklien wrote: post #28
hilbert42 wrote: post #21

The single biggest problem I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don't unless I take special note) that number will change almost immediately, a day or two later the article can be buried many pages down or have disappeared altogether. Then there's the problem of remembering the story's title so one can search for it. Say, sev…

> I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don't unless I take special note) that number will change almost immediately There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked a post as favourite you can access the list of such bookmarked posts under your profile settings called favourited posts Here’s a link…

I find it amazing that we both wrote a comment about HN favorite and https://hn.algolia.com within 5 minutes. You're is more complete though.

Re: Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?

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Post by The_Colonel »

goldname wrote: post #9
rfarley04 wrote: post #4

I can't think of anything I wish HN did differently. What do you have in mind that's "better UX"?

I really like the quora interface. I think old quora used to have a good community like HN. So I'm designing the ui kind of like that

A personal preference, but Quora is likely one of the worst UIs. I really dislike how it mixes answers to different questions into one page. You google something, see it's discussed on Quora, but maybe 1 out of 10 answers there are actually about your question.

Re: Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?

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Post by goldname »

The_Colonel wrote: post #35
goldname wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the quora interface. I think old quora used to have a good community like HN. So I'm designing the ui kind of like that

A personal preference, but Quora is likely one of the worst UIs. I really dislike how it mixes answers to different questions into one page. You google something, see it's discussed on Quora, but maybe 1 out of 10 answers there are actually about your question.

yeah that's the new quora. it's really bad now but used to be really good
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