Comment by frutiger
3 days ago
The HN UI could do with some improvements, especially on mobile devices. The low contrast and small tap areas for common operations make it less than ideal, as well as the lack of dark mode.
I wrote my take on an ideal UI (purely clientside, against the free HN firebase API, in Elm): https://seville.protostome.com/.
To each their own, but I find the text for the number of points and "hours ago" extremely low contrast and hard to read on your site. More importantly, I think it emphasizes the wrong thing. I almost never really care who submitted a post, but I do care about its vote count.
That’s all totally fair.
I actually never care about the vote count but have been on this site long enough to recognise the names worth paying attention to.
Also the higher contrast items are the click/tap targets.
Anyone who goes to the trouble of making their own HN front end is entitled to complain as much as they want, in my book! Nicely done.
It’s hilarious to me that I find this thread. I read the comment you’re replying to before I saw who wrote it. I exclusively read HN on iOS using https://hackerweb.app/ in dark mode precisely because I found it to be the most pleasing mobile experience. And here’s dang replying to my co-worker who commented that he wrote his own HN reader because the actual site isn’t the best on mobile. I could literally reach out my hand, show my phone and share my mobile HN experience with him, except I’m 99% remote. (But I did sit at his desk just last Thursday when he was remote.)
Just goes to show that all of us reading HN don’t actually share with each other how we’re reading HN :)
Too funny… thank you!!