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I'd like the following in HN: 1) Keep not requiring JS 2) White background; the low-contrast design of HN is one of the things I hate secondmost 3) Move upvote/downvote arrows, article title, submitter, flag, etc. apart, so someone using an iPhone/iPad never hits the wrong thing. Ideally , also make actions like voting revocable, and show my current vote for confirmation (e.g. if I've upvoted something show me a high…
No one has beaten http://hckrnews.com/ in my mind.
I think the non flashy design of HN is a feature. eg. hilariously unstyled login page. It means people need to use their brains to realize why all these people congregate here : for the content and discussion. If the site is altered to make it easier to post and comment faster then I am guessing the quality of conversation would go down. Currently you are aware that the comment needs to be well written and not frivol…
I think HN should have an element of difficulty to its UX, because that keeps the user standard high.
No one has beaten http://hckrnews.com/ in my mind.
* I made the background not white, which seemed to be hard on the eyes; I decided to keep the color scheme from orignal HN.
* Changed vote button icon; moved point count together with the button.
* Moved comments from the right to the left, closer to the link and vote button. Reason: it's too important of an element to have it be all on the very far right.
* Moved less important content (time and poster) to the far right.
* Internal stuff: I'm using localStorage APIs to cache the data I'm scrapping from a third party hackernews API source. This is because the source kept getting hiccups.
Here are my questions to the rest of those who are still interested in this endeavor:
Should I go with grey text on white, or black text on tanish grey (like it is now)?
Are the icons too distracting? Are they good, or would you suggest I do something else? Maybe I should ditch the orange background on these icons, and go with orange text when mousing over the buttons?
Some idea I have planned:
* Search field in header * Automatic next page loading with ---page n--- separators (if I can get this to work with the API I'm using) * Replace submit button with a visually persistent composer item.
Let me know what you think of these ideas too.