Hacker News Reader

Interesting to see how stable the design of Hacker News has been. Here’s the earliest I c Ould find in the Wayback Machine – from 21st February, 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...

Some changes – most notably the name – but you could easily mistake it for the current design at a glance.

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Which is interesting, considering it's so bad on mobile.

I really do think the mobile site is fine. Voting buttons are a tad small.

all buttons and links are very small.

I use it 95% on mobile and rarely curse the UI.

I like that it renders quickly, shows lots of articles, and shows lots of comments.

It takes concentration to vote and hide links, but I think it’s optimized for reading and commenting. Better than any other forum, I think.

The performance is awesome, but the UX is rather bad.

Everything is tiny.

Everything is tiny, but it doesn't pointlessly restrict pinch to zoom. Thus interacting is more of a 2-finger process, but so what? It's refreshing for a site to optimize for reading instead of chasing maximum engagement.

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