I had no idea there were people that needed to view HN differently - let alone 21+ ways. I find the "native" presentation basically perfect for both desktop and mobile browsing.
Seriously, for the main interface it is pretty much perfect. Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.
Dread something else; that won't happen. We love the text-based, information-dense, minimal style that pg created. I loved it years before becoming a mod and can't imagine changing it. Besides, we're so old-fashioned now that we're due to become retro chic in another half-cycle. Why sell at the bottom?
speaking of reddit's new redesign...
> Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.
Man, it's almost hilarious
I know have two [-] [-] on both side of each comments because I use a firefox plugin to have one in the right place.
It's insanely fast loading. Just text. Pure text. Sometimes on desktop I replace the yellow background with white (css hack) otherwise my colleagues ask me what am I looking at yellow all day.
Maybe a sort by most voted, most discussed and most recent would help but again not sure, sometimes playing by whatever available and randomness adds a greater flavour than controlling everything.
I for one can't stand the default design and use the Chrome extension Georgify, which makes it 1000x easier to read for me. But we're all different and I love that there are so many ways to consume this site. Or that I have the ability changes things to just the way I'd want.
You're joking right?
Why did you think I was joking?
- Best: No better implementation exists.
- Favorite: No better implementation is known to me.
The current implementation of HN is at best decent.
I can think of 100 ways to improve it. I would be surprised you couldn't.
This site is fine, and I use the regular version on desktop and mobile, but let's not deceive ourselves into thinking it's perfect.