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Show HN: Cylinder HN – View Trending Hacker News and Search Everything

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It's a website with nice UI where you can view and search all Hacker News stories.

The cards in two columns actually make it harder to scan.

Kind of reminds me of this (not identical, but I think similar) problem.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/zigzag-page-layout/.

For one, one can't be certain of order (two columns ordered top to bottom, each, or left right, left right and so on?). But also, just scanability of headlines is slowed.

Yeah, couldn't agree more.

> It's a website with nice UI...

I don't like dumping on earnest Show HNs, but I have such a strong reaction to sites that just think "oh, it just needs a rebrand to a 'modern' UI". Look, lots of unnecessary whitespace! Borders with rounded corners! And all this ends up doing is making the site much less usable (much harder to scan headlines as you point out) for some abstract notion of "prettiness".

Folks should understand that HN's simplicity and information density is a feature, not a big. I've seen lots of sites ruin themselves (cough cough Slashdot cough...) for the sake of some unnecessary redesign.

Best typo of the day: "... not a big."

So is this simply a different UI? The stories and ordering seems to be exactly the same as this one.

With same APIs, so a bit like what you said.

The domain click target is too big, it's a div spanning the whole width of the card, so it's easy to accidentally open the domain root instead of the link, especially on mobile, which is something I would probably never intend. (On HN the domain link actually serves a purpose — letting you check prior submissions for the domain.) Making the click target an inline-block as wide as the domain text or simply getting rid of the domain link should be better.

It makes sense, I just fixed it, thank you!

Duh. I tried to view comments section but it just linked back here.

Please please please add a better comment interface and make it mobile compatible!

Got it, I will fix it next week.

This looks great feel free to add it on superlative.tools

Cool, any plan to support searching within favorite list?

That's sounds good, I created a features GitHub issue and added it to the list. https://github.com/doforce/cylinder/issues/1

Sorry to say but I think this is much more confusing, has less visible data and is more difficult to use than hacker news.

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