Ask HN: Why is hacker news still stuck with an ugly UI?
A lot of smart people use this everyday. There are a lot of alternate CSS versions also. Why not something that looks good? And the layout still uses tables!
it makes the layout/styles a lot nicer and adds some useful features such as:
- Improved readability design
- Super fast inline replies
- Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames
- Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user
- Endless scrolling
- Collapsible comment threads
- Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer
The layout makes quick work of scanning for interesting articles, seeing which have a slew of comments and what not. It is and always has been about the content and never about the flashy appearance (lack thereof). It is functional in its simplicity. This is why I still end up using freshnews.org (and have for over 12 years) as a news aggregator site. Simple, Clean, very muted use of colours and shapes. I find what I want quickly because I value my time, even when slacking.
And I for one do not find the site ugly. I find most other sites ugly. :-)