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Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have
by grawprog 6y ago
Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have to scroll a whole page just to see as many stories as I can at a glance on hn. With one quick scroll, i can see an entire hn page, to get to the bottom of autonews I had to scroll 5 times and scroll past an annoying subscribe bar placed in the middle.
I don't really feel like it captures hn's ease of use and simplicity.
- aero- 6y agodude you would love tiktok. you get one video per page.
- trizoza 6y agoThanks, I was actually exactly thinking the same when I was comparing autonews.io vs HN. But I would have to compromise the images if I wanted to make it more concise, and I've decided not to.
- jvalencia 6y agoYou can keep the images, but just reduce all the white space. Also, I'd get rid of the cookie banner, as I didn't see cookies?
- trizoza 6y agoThanks, someone else mentioned the cookies as well. Will have a look into whether I can remove that, as I hate the consent myself.
- grawprog 6y agoI don't think the images are a problem. Like the other commenter said i think it's the use of whitespace. The story feed seems quite narrow compared to hn. There's lots of deadspace to either side. I think you could increase the usage of space while not compromising on the images. Please too, put the subscribe thing at the bottom of the page, not the middle. That just reminded me of a midpage banner add. It disrupted the reading flow very obviously. It's a terrible spot for it.
- p1necone 6y agoI think making the images square (or squircles) instead of round, and a little bit smaller would allow you to reclaim quite a lot of whitespace.
- andrewstuart 6y agoAgreed - don't get fancy - you're on a good idea with the auto focus - just clone the HN look and feel, choose a different color palette. I wonder if part of the appeal of HN is it has no images?
- capableweb 6y agoYou don't even have to write your own software, you can just run HN ("news") directly for your niche! http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install
- trizoza 6y agoAll that work... :)
- mysterydip 6y agoIt is for me. Reception isn't always good where I go and being light on load times is one of the reasons I keep coming back.
- ipaddr 6y agoyes.
- shoto_io 6y agoMaybe I am getting old, but if I see "I made HN for X" I am expecting to see the exact design of HN...
- prh8 6y agoAt a minimum I'd hope for a copy plus fixing the issues. But I like seeing it tailored a little more towards the target audience.
- millzlane 6y agoIt's not just you. I must be old too.
- systemvoltage 6y agoWe need to own this and say HN design is far superior vast majority of web design out there. It has nothing to do with us getting old and it only gives excuses to people to not be inspired by it.
- travoc 6y agoDoes the back button in the iOS app eventually float off the screen and become unusable? If so, I’m in.
- weird-eye-issue 6y agoComing from Android... You guys still have back buttons? I just swipe from the edge of my screen to go forward/back from anywhere