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Comment by _xhok | Hacker News Reader

One thing I notice is that when I hover over the buttons they get shorter. Rather an off-putting hover state to me.

It's because they tried to do a button effect. But they missed the idea. They have to add a top border of color white on the hover.

Fixed with:

  .btn:hover {
    margin-top: 1px;
    border-bottom-width: 3px;
    position: relative;
    top: 1px;
    margin-bottom: 1px;
  }
  .btn:active {
    top: 2px;
    border-bottom-width: 2px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: none;
    box-shadow: none;
    margin-bottom: 2px;
    position: relative;
  }

seriously? that's all you have to add to the conversation?

I don't think my comment was in the nature of, say, a grammatical correction. If this were my website and someone found a button's hover state off-putting, whether they were right or not I'd want to know about it.

I didn't want to comment on the service itself until I had something important to say about it.

It's an incredibly important point for the firm, considering that design decision flies in the face of good design, presumably has been viewed/interacted with by multiple people at the firm, and is somehow still in place in the live site.

Details matter and you either get this, or you don't.

while I agree that details matter in design, a. it's not a big deal and b. mentioning it doesn't really add to the conversation at hand. I thought HN was all about trying to ensure that comments were useful to the topic?

I think it's a useful bit of feedback.

this is HN, this kind of feedback and observations by pros are why I'm here.

HN is filled with web professionals. Of course we are gonna look at your source code and offer fixes.

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