Comment by oneeyedpigeon

2 days ago

I upvoted you - at least, I hope I did. HN's vote buttons have such poor UX that a) it's difficult to hit the right button b) it's impossible to know, after doing so, whether you even hit the right button!

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shric  2 days ago

There is either an unvote or undown option once you’ve hit one

  • HK-NC  9 hours ago

    Theres onoy an Up button for me. I had no idea you could Down anyone here.

    • IAmBroom  5 hours ago

      You need a certain amount of upvote points to be able to downvote. New users don't have that option.

  • oneeyedpigeon  2 days ago

    Ah, thanks. That confirms I upvoted, but I think "vote" is a silly verb to use to convey the opposite of "down"!

    • shric  1 day ago

      I agree, but I struggle to think of a cleaner way without sacrificing the minimalist and mostly accessible theme.

      I love that there are no images, not even Unicode emojis, no ads, no side bars, etc.

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    • rimbo789  2 days ago

      I’d say 60% of the time I go to vote I click a users name instead when I’m on mobile.

  • da_chicken  2 days ago

    That's still a bad UI.

    But at this point I think the bad UX on Hacker News has to be an intentional joke.

  • kibwen  2 days ago

    Nowadays there is. For the first ten years or so, you just had to shrug and apologize to the commenter for accidentally and irrevocably downvoting them.

wkjagt  2 days ago

On my phone I always zoom in on the vote buttons as far as it will let me so each is as big as my thumb.