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Comment by grawprog | Hacker News Reader

Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have to scroll a whole page just to see as many stories as I can at a glance on hn. With one quick scroll, i can see an entire hn page, to get to the bottom of autonews I had to scroll 5 times and scroll past an annoying subscribe bar placed in the middle.

I don't really feel like it captures hn's ease of use and simplicity.

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Maybe I am getting old, but if I see "I made HN for X" I am expecting to see the exact design of HN...

At a minimum I'd hope for a copy plus fixing the issues.

But I like seeing it tailored a little more towards the target audience.

It's not just you. I must be old too.

We need to own this and say HN design is far superior vast majority of web design out there. It has nothing to do with us getting old and it only gives excuses to people to not be inspired by it.

You're right. It's really as simple as labeling buttons. The information you want is clear and concise with no distractions and no fluff.

Damn. You’re right...

Does the back button in the iOS app eventually float off the screen and become unusable? If so, I’m in.

Coming from Android... You guys still have back buttons? I just swipe from the edge of my screen to go forward/back from anywhere

I think iOS has the forward/back gestures too.

Stochastic UI/UX is all the rage nowadays

That is such a great term. Instantly communicates what you’re talking about and how frustrating it is.

Yoink, I’ll definitely be borrowing that. Thanks!

I consider myself fairly young (only a few years out of college), and I'd definitely expect the same or very similar design.

At a minimum, I’d expect a similar design aesthetic, rather than obtrusive JS, email harvesting, and a need for a tailored marketing cookie warning.

Agreed - don't get fancy - you're on a good idea with the auto focus - just clone the HN look and feel, choose a different color palette.

I wonder if part of the appeal of HN is it has no images?

You don't even have to write your own software, you can just run HN ("news") directly for your niche! http://arclanguage.org/install

All that work... :)

It is for me. Reception isn't always good where I go and being light on load times is one of the reasons I keep coming back.

yes.

Thanks, I was actually exactly thinking the same when I was comparing autonews.io vs HN. But I would have to compromise the images if I wanted to make it more concise, and I've decided not to.

You can keep the images, but just reduce all the white space. Also, I'd get rid of the cookie banner, as I didn't see cookies?

Thanks, someone else mentioned the cookies as well. Will have a look into whether I can remove that, as I hate the consent myself.

I don't think the images are a problem. Like the other commenter said i think it's the use of whitespace. The story feed seems quite narrow compared to hn. There's lots of deadspace to either side. I think you could increase the usage of space while not compromising on the images.

Please too, put the subscribe thing at the bottom of the page, not the middle. That just reminded me of a midpage banner add. It disrupted the reading flow very obviously.

It's a terrible spot for it.

I think making the images square (or squircles) instead of round, and a little bit smaller would allow you to reclaim quite a lot of whitespace.

dude you would love tiktok. you get one video per page.

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