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Comment by inetsee | Hacker News Reader

One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.

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Support this statement! Design that sacrifices content for sake of nice looking white-spaces can be used only on personal pages that nobody reads.

Whitespace doesn't exist just for the sake of being pretty. At least to me I find this mockup much more readable than the current design, as the space between links clearly separates them. This makes it much easier to read their titles.

I agree. My intention is to use white space to separate things, vs lines or other graphical distractions. Having said that, I still need to work on the list part of the design.

There will be less white space and it will be used more scarcely, however I'd rather use a little bit of white space instead of something like a horizontal line. Wouldn't you agree with this? :P

Really? On my computer it's the exact opposite. The HN design looks like the font is around 8pt; the redesign looks like it's around 11pt.

I opened up two, identical browsers (Chromium version 25) on my 27 inch IPS monitor. I opened up the redesign in one browser, and the regular Hacker News in the other. The redesign has visually, noticeably smaller fonts.

The real HN has 10pt titles and 7pt metadata, at least on my PC.

The redesign makes titles smaller and metadata larger, in effect making them the same size.

I think this is a bad change, because now there's little distinction between title and metadata.

I want to remove the metadata if I can. Would you agree that the titles and "comhead" (the domain name) should be the visually promenant part? My goal is to minimize on the meta as much as possible without removing the usefulness of it.

The font size is the same size for me. I do like the increased padding on the design.

Except for the god-awful vote buttons. They're even still image files as well.

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