Comment by ggreer

10 years ago

Thank you for making this. My one suggestion would be to make the upvote/downvote arrows larger and farther apart. I'd say around 5% of my votes on mobile are incorrect. Often I'm lazy about zooming in to make sure I hit the correct arrow.

Actually, I'd like that change on larger devices as well. I've often misvoted on my Surface. As large touchscreens become more popular (iPad Pro, the Surface line, etc), I could see this becoming a problem for more users.

Edit: I see white margins on my iPhone 5, but not on my iPhone 6. It looks like you need to tweak the media query in the following css:

    @media only screen
    and (min-device-width : 375px)
    and (max-device-width : 667px) {
    ...

The iPhone 5's device width is 320px. Changing that 375 to something lower should fix the issue.

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lewisl9029  10 years ago

Agreed on the need for larger vote buttons.

What about placing the vote buttons on the left side of the ranking number?

There would be less of a chance to misclick and end up clicking the article link instead. You would also have the opportunity to make more room for the vote buttons since you can then afford to place the ranking number closer to the article title, since the ranking number is non-interactive.

akamaka  10 years ago

Alternately, how about being able to undo a vote, like reddit?

  • eru  10 years ago

    I remember we discussed that. I think once-for-all votes were an attempt at social engineering to shape the site.

    • PhasmaFelis  10 years ago

      I'm really curious what it was trying to social-engineer. I've seen dozens of sites with vote buttons and all of them except HN allow you to change your vote, because why wouldn't you? It's easy to engineer and obviously superior.

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  • ggreer  10 years ago

    I'm not against that, but I bet it would require a lot more work than a styling change.