Designer News + Hacker News = The News | Hacker News Reader

Designer News + Hacker News = The News

thenews.im

29 pointsrssems16 comments

A lot of these redesigns share the common look of spacing everything out, which looks good. But I've gotten used to the compact layout of HN that lets me browse through stories really quickly.

Particularly the big annoyance in the latest version of UI/UX wave is the small fonts. I always zoom to about 150% and in instances where the pages are spaced out very little content is visible in one screenview. I just hope this phase passes soon and never comes back.

And to be clear, I have 20-20 vision.

Don't forget small light grey fonts on a white background. I have terrible vision and have firefox set in a way that absolutely destroys websites in proportion to their trendiness (in order to make them readable). I'm still waiting for accessibility to become trendy.

To be fair, even places that should know better, like Mozilla Thunderbird and Valve's Steam client, are impossible to increase fonts in or are destroyed when you force them to.

Yeah, it would nice (and probably simple to implement) to have an option at the top to toggle between condensed and uncondensed views.

I think the large, bold story numbers draw too much attention that would otherwise be focused on the headlines. What a story is about is more important, and contains more information, than its ranking on the front page.

Hacker News may not be all that pretty, but it's designed to bring out the important parts and communicate them quickly. Less relevant, less commonly accessed bits or information like numbers and usernames are available but don't stand out.

What is the reasoning behind making the story number so big?

We now that it is an ordered list so we don't really care much about the story number.

The most important thing on the page should be Story title > Story source / Submitter / Comments

I like the idea of having the top 20 of both websites side by side though.

I like the concept, but the site optimizes "beautiful" over functional. It is very hard to scan titles versus the standard news.ycombinator.com

1. make the text bigger and bolder

2. cut out colors

3. less padding on everything

4. the "numbering of the post" matters very little to me. it doesn't need to be so prominent

me likes.

if you added inbound.org it would be a trifecta of hacker,hustler,designer news

As a designer, I don't get a lot of value for DN that HN doesn't already provide. With the membership being closed down its too cliquey - -

It feels like these design sites are offering design for design sake instead of designing something usable on a daily basis. This is one area where HN has done quite well in my books. Once our arrows are unicode we're set. :)

Would be good if it had a "more" button

Why are you using quickfit if you're not changing font sizes? use jquery-ellipsis-interactive if you just want reversible truncation.

You could also consider having some way to load more stories, there's more to hackerne.ws than just the first twenty.

I love this. I immediately started tweaking the CSS for a larger font size and less padding, though. HN users are accustomed to density, I think.

It says that all of the posts were submitted 12 hours ago. Probably a bug?

The HN side goes from 19 to 21.

It goes from 18 to 20 for me.

For now it skips the ASK HN news,

I didn't mean to release the project yet, just told one of my friends now it's on hn :) It's the second day on project, I will fix ASAP :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com