Ask HN: Aren't the HN voting buttons too small?

Hey guys,

I feel the voting buttons on HN are too small. Now that the points aren't visible on comments, I'm not even sure which button I clicked on. I'm worried if I've been down-voting good discussions by mistake.

Does anyone else have the same issue? If yes, can we have bigger voting buttons please?

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readme 14y ago ↗

I think its safe to assume that any down votes this post gets were by accident due to the button size.

quadrahelix 14y ago ↗

Yes.

bdfh42 14y ago ↗

I like the small and discreet vote buttons myself.

Try <ctrl><+> a few times (in Chrome anyway) if you need a bigger target ;)

SingAlong 14y ago ↗

I wanted to mention that I was aware of this trick in the thread description, but removed it because I thought it was obvious. It's too many key strokes and clicks to zoom in, upvote and then zoom out again to read text at normal size.

joshstrange 14y ago ↗

If you really find the buttons to be too small then why don't you look in to writing (or finding) a userscript to make them bigger/different? I only suggest it because the likelihood that HN is going to change is very low.

booruguru 14y ago ↗

Yes. The voting button is way too small. In fact, upon first glance it's not really evident that it's even a button. I like minimalist design, but HN has taken the idea a bit too far.