I love the simplicty of YC News, but it's hard for me to read -- Just me? | Hacker News Reader

I love the simplicty of YC News, but it's hard for me to read -- Just me?

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Vote this up if you want the fonts bigger and visited links darker.

Or if you prefer things the way they are, vote this up.

exploiting the top comment :)

my only request is that my comments that received reply could have a different color so that i know they were replied because I missed reading replies on time.

or if titles should be bigger w/less contrast. I like .title 11pt or 12pt and a:link less than black, maybe #222222 or so.

And vote THIS up if you want there to be user-configurable values via SQL injection exploits:

http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid="begin;update Skins set Font='Comic Sans' where userName='mynameishere';commit;"

SQL injection? You'd need something more like alist injection.

'... fonts bigger ...'

In Fox, "Ctrl +' for bigger and 'Ctrl -' for smaller

'... and visited links darker ...'

good point in Fox de-select, "Edit-Firefox preferences-Content-Colors-Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections" will change the link colours but also the background.

I love YC News, and definitely appreciate PG's minimalist tendencies (which made reddit so great). But there's something about this site that makes it hard for me to read. I've been browsing with "View->Page Style->No Style" which helps.

I'm thinking it's something trivial like the gray visited links and small fonts.

Anyone else find it hard to read?

Its usually fine. The user pages are a bit cluttered with all the history of a certain user. And yep, small fonts and grayed out links that blend into the background are small gripes on my part as well.

I think greyed out links on the gray backround makes it harder. Why not use some of the orange for unread links?

I'm ok with it but I have to increase the text size to read it. This isn't exclusive to YC news, I have to increase font size on most webpages due to my poor sight and mac os' irritating support for external monitors.

fonts are fine (that's an easy change for browser users to make because we have shortcuts), but visited links should be darker (more of a pain to change for just one site)

Yeah I agree. I visit the site a few times a day. Its hard to read, and hard to tell if I missed a good post too! Perhaps organizing posts by date might help.

I think it would be better if there were less items on each page, font was bigger, and we had categories for each submission so that we could filter it.

If the text looks grey on a grey background, you might be using firefox. The site is much more readable on IE. Not that you should have to change.

I already suggested alternating row colors on all news list pages.

-Zaid

Drop the background color would work for me.

ctrl-scrollwheel

or for Mac users: Shift-⌘+

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