My favourite too, simple, clean, and shows everything in an order that makes more sense. The latest changes to the site were excellent improvements as well!
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.
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
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.
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.
Yes, the nice thing about HN is the de-emphasis of the submitter...the content should stand on its own, not on the authority of whoever submitted it.
Number of upvotes is also irrelevant to emphasize. This attribute is inherently reflected in the vertical position of the item.
Edit: oops, OP did not emphasize upvotes. I'm ambivalent about holding number of comments...again, the number of them can mean several conflicting things
Me, too. I hope it never goes away in favour of flavour-of-the-month web design.
There's just enough space between articles and a ton of stuff fits on the screen at once. If it's not to your liking, there's a ton of alternative HN design services out there you can use.
The problem is that if you go for a clean (read: white-heavy) design, then you end up with black text on white background. I prefer the classic HN purely because it is (to me) a bit milder on the eye. Kudos for trying though.
Agreed. Having feedback that the vote counted would be helpful as well. When I was getting used to my new tablet I'd select them, so they'd vanish, but moving or touching elsewhere would show the buttons again. Odd.
What I like about this extension over the OPs proposal is that it gives emphasis to the title, not the metadata like author and comments. The font family and size choices are much better as well.
HN has a really nice hacker-ish design feel to it already so it's great. Just that it is not very tablet and mobile friendly with the really small buttons.
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[ 6.5 ms ] story [ 123 ms ] threadThe 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.
It seems this is editable, I will check back later to add my perception of HN.
The colors kinda kills the eyes though.
Number of upvotes is also irrelevant to emphasize. This attribute is inherently reflected in the vertical position of the item.
Edit: oops, OP did not emphasize upvotes. I'm ambivalent about holding number of comments...again, the number of them can mean several conflicting things
There's just enough space between articles and a ton of stuff fits on the screen at once. If it's not to your liking, there's a ton of alternative HN design services out there you can use.
http://jsbin.com/ucupox/1/
Browser: Chromium, Extension: "HipsterNews" -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...
It's a copy of news.layervault.com, which copied news.yc in the first place. I'm sure there is some sort of joke in there somewhere.
It's probably not the prettiest but I like it.
I switched to Hacker News Enhancement Suite https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...