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It loads fast and doesn't use web fonts, but that's not really a high bar, for essentially a forum. Apart from that it's not exactly a pleasant reading experie

It loads fast and doesn't use web fonts, but that's not really a high bar, for essentially a forum. Apart from that it's not exactly a pleasant reading experience. Tiny text for modern displays. Poor typography (bad line-height of content, needlessly cramped padding in listing). Ugly beige background colour, randomly constrained to a container, (why not be all-white or all-beige). Poor click targets for smaller displays. On desktop, I use the Georgify [1] Chrome extension, fixes my (desktop-related) complaints above whilst staying minimal. For mobile I use the Premii iOS app (it also has web and android versions) [2]. Well designed, lots of nice features like the comment collapsing you mention. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfaleomlfanfehgblppafkijjhmi?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale... [2] https://github.com/premii/hn https://github.com/premii/hn

gkya 9y ago
I disagree all of your criticisms. Apart from the last one, they are all subjective and I disagree without a reason. I like what I see. Wrt sizes of the click targets, HN, unlike many products of elegant (!) design, let's you zoom in an out, so that is not a problem.
- allover 9y ago
  Zooming in and out and panning around a webpage is a terrible user experience in my opinion.
  - jjeaff 9y ago
    Yes, I like the option to pan and zoom. But if I have to do so, that is indicative of a bad design in my book.
bastijn 9y ago
Interesting. I find the app you mention an example of an experience worse than the regular web page on mobile. On ios hn actually looks great. https://imgur.com/JP8LxIT https://imgur.com/JP8LxIT
- allover 9y ago
  That's not great. Far worse and less usable than Premii's iOS app imo, subjective though obviously.