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Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

#72

Post by Sodaware »

lwhi wrote: post #31

I like this, but there's a lot of white space .. perhaps too much. Maybe a more compact view would be useful? Like others have said, the grey is too pale. EDIT: It would be nice if the layout made use of columns .. this could provide innovative use of wide-screen resolutions.

Try the Hacker News UX extension for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chngbdmhgakoomomnn...). It adds dual column support and works really well with Georgify.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

#73

Post by rubergly »

tomlin wrote: post #46

I like it. A little off topic, but the Google Chrome Extensions that override CSS get my brain thinking about something like this on a different scale. For instance, could someone build complete Facebook or Twitter face-lifts? If it's possible, the consequences of that permutation would be interesting. Especially now that the modern browsers are moving towards auto-update, which encourages a higher likelihood of some…

There are definitely already extensions that completely remodel the UI experience of sites like Facebook. They've only been targeted at making things more usable and adding features that people want, rarely undoing new Facebook redesigns.

The people who would install a Chrome extension to improve the design of facebook aren't going to be the kind of people who blindly say "ugh, Facebook looks differen, wtf!", and those kinds of people are especially not going to be the kind of people who would write up lots of complicated CSS and JS (both, not just CSS, would be necessary to roll back Facebook's upgrades) to redesign facebook. But this raises a good point: when Facebook rolls out a redesign, do they change the backend enough that an extension that overrode the CSS and JS with the previous design's CSS and JS would break?

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

#75

Post by eagsalazar »

Sodaware wrote: post #72
lwhi wrote: post #31

I like this, but there's a lot of white space .. perhaps too much. Maybe a more compact view would be useful? Like others have said, the grey is too pale. EDIT: It would be nice if the layout made use of columns .. this could provide innovative use of wide-screen resolutions.

Try the Hacker News UX extension for Chrome ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chngbdmhgakoomomnn... ). It adds dual column support and works really well with Georgify.

both plugins actually work surprisingly well together. Good combo and mitigates a lot of the whitespace issue.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

#76

Post by fooandbarify »

kami8844 wrote: post #64
gumbo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also agree. There is too much white color, the readability is not very good. I was exited about it as i already mentionned here that there is room for improvment of HN. i'll uninstall it now. looking forward to try a corrected version.

Colornazi in me has to point out that white isn't really a color, otherwise I agree.

I hate to be "that guy" but are downvotes really warranted here? Wouldn't it be sufficient to provide a correction?

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

#78

Post by jjcm »

Some thoughts:

1.) There's a lack of contrast in the page. A visited link is the same color as a comment that is rated 2.) The up/down vote arrows are visually far away from the name of the user. Knowing the context of who's saying something can mean the difference between a troll post and an insightful one.

3.) The page is no longer fluid. While this is more preference than an actual issue, I think that a fixed width format is detrimental for those of us who have widescreen monitors (or for those of us who like to tile our windows in small patches).

4.) Whitespace. There's a lot of it. Without your plugin, I can see all of the articles on the front page in ~1400px. With the stylesheet patch, it's about 3x that. I visit HN a lot, and will click on just about every story. As such, when I'm done reading HN all of the links have changed color. When I visit it later in the day, I can at a glance see every story that's new. Sometimes I have it autorefresh every few minutes on a separate monitor, and keeping everything concise allows me to do that.

Those are my thoughts. At this stage I'd say that it's pretty, but not yet functional. Work on the functional portion and I'll keep this plugin installed. Great work, keep it up!

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by tuhin »

jjcm wrote: post #78

Some thoughts: 1.) There's a lack of contrast in the page. A visited link is the same color as a comment that is rated 2.) The up/down vote arrows are visually far away from the name of the user. Knowing the context of who's saying something can mean the difference between a troll post and an insightful one. 3.) The page is no longer fluid. While this is more preference than an actual issue, I think that a fixed widt…

An update has been posted that solves some of these issues (2, 4).

(3) Fluid has a deterimental effect at lengthier line span (when it exceeds 50-60 chars). Hence limited at 700 px.

(1)On HN visited links are read emails for me. Hence they are of not much use and thus same treatment as the dead link.

Also it is funny since the reason most people gave for requesting flushing commenter's name to left was that they upvote or downvote with help of points/commenter's name! Atleast that was my interpretation. I had thought of the exact opposite reason and hence put it in right earlier. Upvote should have nothing to do with who said it or how many points it has already received.

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