also on mobile widths it breaks (on dsktop) when making window narrower
Thanks for the heads up, will fix that in the next update.
Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
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Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#52Do you accept feature requests/think this might be a good idea?
I've been thinking about creating this + adding https://github.com/mozilla/readability to grab the links that are text articles and present them in-page (and cleaned up, just the text+images+similar, removing all the sidebars, popups, etc) instead of having to go to a 3rd party website with all the popups and such.
It'd have to be either a personal website or a browser extension like yours, since I wouldn't be able to host a given article for anyone to read (for copyright reasons), but I can have a modified browser that loads a 3rd party article different.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#53I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :) But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
I love it. I wonder if it's possible to do this by proxying requests to HN instead of a Chrome extension -- that way I don't have to bloat the browser's start-up time and don't have to "worry" about this extension spying on other websites, even though I realize it's unlikely, it's good principle to not have to give this permission.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#54Out of all the HN extensions/websites I've used, this one has become my favorite. I really like the customizations available and also, it really does feel "modern" in that some things just feel easier to do with this tool.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#55This looks very nice, great job!!
I used to use HN-Special[1] (by the same dev who made that 2048 game[2]) but I stopped a while ago and I don't miss it. I like HN as is (for now), but I do have it at 150% zoom using the native browser built in zoom, which works great for my needs.
The one thing I really really want is the equivalent of the "[l+c]" button from Reddit Enhanced Suite. In one click you open both the comments and the submission (if it's just a text one) in new tabs.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by the arrow at the bottom? I don't recognize that.
Correction, I was referring to "X more comments..." like seen on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755893 I just want all comments to load on page load so I can search easily.
Ah ok. Actually we've mostly turned pagination off lately because recent performance improvements (not the big ones - those are still coming!) made it possible. But I forgot to turn it off when I restarted the server today, and with the big QE thread burning hot at the moment, we should maybe wait a while.
I agree that it's annoying and it will be a happy day when we can turn it off properly.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#57It is way less efficient to consume HN with this design, so I won't use it.
I agree, it's a lot harder to logically/visually move through comments. The grey-black-black-with-underlines is a lot easier to read then the bold-black/black/thin-hl. It's kind of why I hate the new reddit style too.
I also don't like having to hover to see the icons for reply. Why are you hiding the parent/context buttons for navigation in a dot-dot-dot menu when you drill into a comment chain? Where's prev/next? Upvote/Downvote/hover UI covers stuff, and no alt tags anywhere to be seen.
Also why does it need perms to firebase and extensionpay again?
It just feels clunky even as a redesign.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#58Nice! Any way to set previously read items with different CSS, so — as in the basic HN UI — you can tell at a glance whether you’ve already been there? Don’t see that option mentioned for either free or Pro.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#59Used it the past hour, I really like it. Thanks for making this.
Can you add the "past" section too? Also, it would be great if you add left margin indicator for comment threads, otherwise for long comment threads it is not clear how deep inside I am in the thread.
Re: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
#60Love this; really nice work. It's so much more readable. Older eyes thank you. I would upvote it just for having a lighter-charcoal background available for dark mode.
My one piece of feedback is this: the line height adjustment on the comment pages changes the distance between comments as well as the space between lines within comments, but I think those are better decoupled. I would like to see comments fairly close together while maintaining a readable line height for the comments themselves.