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I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by c2prods »

csbartus wrote: post #27

Hacker News redesigns and mobile apps are popping up almost weekly here at HN .... I'm trying all them out. Yet still using the original. Being a designer I was always thinking what makes this ugly design so time resistant. One single answer comes to my mind: the character of its creator.

I think this "ugly design" as you say is resistant because it is a good design. It's functionnal and as such, I don't see any reason why it should change. A good design is a design we can read easily and use easily. For instance, I find Designer News far less easy to read than HN. HN's design might be ugly but it's convenient and it's all what matters. I agree that HN could have a better mobile experience. But the current design works particularly well on desktop.

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by slacka »

iaskwhy wrote: post #20

Best mobile HN, by far: http://hn.premii.com/

Wow! Huge improvement on my iPhone. No more vertical scrolling of comments. If only I could vote and it had a narrower title bar. Current current title bar takes up 20% of my screen. Any perminant feaure should use the minimum space possible to maximize content view.

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by iSnow »

c2prods wrote: post #34
csbartus wrote: post #27

Hacker News redesigns and mobile apps are popping up almost weekly here at HN .... I'm trying all them out. Yet still using the original. Being a designer I was always thinking what makes this ugly design so time resistant. One single answer comes to my mind: the character of its creator.

I think this "ugly design" as you say is resistant because it is a good design. It's functionnal and as such, I don't see any reason why it should change. A good design is a design we can read easily and use easily. For instance, I find Designer News far less easy to read than HN. HN's design might be ugly but it's convenient and it's all what matters. I agree that HN could have a better mobile experience. But the cu…

>A good design is a design we can read easily and use easily

HN on mobile achives neither.

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by marknutter »

csbartus wrote: post #27

Hacker News redesigns and mobile apps are popping up almost weekly here at HN .... I'm trying all them out. Yet still using the original. Being a designer I was always thinking what makes this ugly design so time resistant. One single answer comes to my mind: the character of its creator.

Then you must not be using HN on a mobile device, because it is pretty much unusable.. that is, unless you like panning left and right incessantly as you read titles.
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