Show HN: A better Hacker News front end (hakkernieuws.vercel.app)

how is this better?

The headers are lost in the design amongst all the extra negative space and increased font sizes

For me, the only lacking feature of vanilla HN is dark mode. I wish they'd add that. Other than that, it's perfect.

Way too much spacing between comments.

I don’t think this is better. Mind you I opened this on my phone.

Overall there is too little space for the titles and the space there is, is given to the branding of the source, so favicon and domain.

I believe the focus should be the content. The hn community overall is quite good at filtering out the nonsense, so if you go to the homepage there will be quality content and having to filter out based on source is not necessary for me.

The approach taken in your design is similar to a search engine where filtering on source credibility or appropriateness IS necessary.

While it looks “modern” I think your redesign proves that flash does not equal good UX

I like the bigger touch targets in the header for mobile, but the infinite scroll hurts me, pages introduce natural stopping points and mean the header is always nearby.

(I appreciate that it's Load More instead of automatic infinite scroll, but still!)

I prefer the existing one. What I like about existing one is how simple the titles are to read. They are strong contrast above everything else. Yours has icons that take away focus, and not as much contrast between the meta info etc.

It is a bit in similar direction like Old Reddit (good) to New Reddit (terrible).

Not better IMO but I can appreciate the attempt. Seems messier than the real thing. The icons don't really do anything to help. Takes more time to read.

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Good effort — I like it.

Is it better or not is a subjective thing. Don't get discouraged by some of the comments posted here.

how do you like my hackernews frontend: https://news.facts.dev/

Not better at all, we don't need flashy UI, we need better content focus

It's more attractive, but a little less readable. I would call it different but not better.

Looks nice. Need to be able to comment. That’s the whole point of HN

What's not broken is easily fixed.

Spacing between comments is pretty wide. Gives me that feeling when they redesign a site and everything is spaced our 2x more than it was before. Some text feels too small at default zoom.

Also you followed original HN here making clicked on links grey, ive always found it annoyingly hard to quikcly spot them in the list after they get turned grey.

Thanks for sharing this

Opened it on mobile. UI looks more modern of course, but scrolling is just plain horrible.

First impression: this is strictly worse. Way too much space between everything (even between lines in paragraphs!) means fewer stories visible on screen, and fewer comments visible. Enormous pointless spaces between comments, grey comment text is harder to read. Site links on stories don't link to site's stories. Data is out of date.

So what's worse/better? What did u fix? What didn't u fix?

All this description says that it's better for you. Why? What could be improved?

I mostly check HN on my phone. Harmonic is awesome for this, and I can definitely tell you why it's better for phones.

- Nice filtering - infinite scroll - local bookmarking - rich UI for actions

Font size is one of my biggest bugbears with HN, as well as the terrible colour contrast on downvoted posts.

I scratched my itch with a custom UserScript

https://github.com/mgladdish/website-customisations/tree/mai...

I'm particularly pleased with how quotes are rendered - I wouldn't go back to 'default' HN now.

I find the favicons needlessly distracting and unhelpful. I suspect we probably use different parts of the brain for processing images and text, so it's a lot of different information at once.

My main gripes with HN UI are the expand/collapse and voting buttons are tiny on mobile. And it's very easy to accidentally hide an article by accident (it's a hassle to undo this).

Its really good modern, loved it. Don't get disappointed with people's comments

Even tinier font? Basic, basic failure.

I've fat fingered the "hide" button quite often when I was trying to hit the comments button. That's the main thing that I find slightly annoying about the default HN layout