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Wow, that's so nice to hear. Thank you! That's actually a great idea. If you say "high density", do you mean just less whitespace/spacing or should stuff like

by pabue 5y ago

Wow, that's so nice to hear. Thank you! That's actually a great idea. If you say "high density", do you mean just less whitespace/spacing or should stuff like the upvotes, author and date be completely removed from the initial element?

umvi 5y ago
On vanilla HN, a story is roughly 30 pixels in height with 5 pixels of whitespace between stories: PostgreSQL 14 (postgresql.org) [20px tall] 399 points by jkatz05 2 hours ago [10px tall] [5px spacer] On Haxplore, a story is roughly 75 pixels tall with 32 pixels of spacing. If you decide to implement a high density mode (I would make sure other users beside me want this before doing that work), the primary concern IMO is just cramming more stories onto the page so users can scan down the page to read more story headlines without scrolling. That could be achieved many ways, but if it were me I would probably do a combo of reducing whitespace, reducing font size, and removing/consolidating story info (i.e. instead of URL having it's own line, move a truncated version of URL next to story title like vanilla HN does)
- laumars 5y ago
  > If you decide to implement a high density mode (I would make sure other users beside me want this before doing that work), That’s a refreshingly humble request. So often in FOSS I see people demanding features, even being downright critical at times. It’s really nice seeing someone suggest their feature request might not be popular is rare. Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity :)
spiralx 5y ago
I like the font and spacing a lot, I'm always writing user styles to make sites (especially HN and Reddit) comfortable to read for more than a minute or two. OTOH there's between 235px and 325px of height before the first comment under the parent story/comment, which is somewhere between 1/4 and a 1/3 of the entire available height. The Back and Open keyboard hints could be moved elsewhere or the empty space up top could just be shrunk. And why isn't Toggle Full Post with Back and Open, either all at the top or all in the parent? Similarly having the "By pabue" on its own line (instead of inline with the controls below it) takes up a lot of room, and the least clear part of the UI is the comment author. It's also not obvious where you are in a list of comments, having a minimap might be nice and quite fun to develop! And being able to go forward (and back) a page would also be nice. It's a nifty project though, good work :)

by pabue 5y ago

umvi 5y ago

On vanilla HN, a story is roughly 30 pixels in height with 5 pixels of whitespace between stories: PostgreSQL 14 (postgresql.org) [20px tall] 399 points by jkatz05 2 hours ago [10px tall] [5px spacer] On Haxplore, a story is roughly 75 pixels tall with 32 pixels of spacing. If you decide to implement a high density mode (I would make sure other users beside me want this before doing that work), the primary concern IMO is just cramming more stories onto the page so users can scan down the page to read more story headlines without scrolling. That could be achieved many ways, but if it were me I would probably do a combo of reducing whitespace, reducing font size, and removing/consolidating story info (i.e. instead of URL having it's own line, move a truncated version of URL next to story title like vanilla HN does)

laumars 5y ago
> If you decide to implement a high density mode (I would make sure other users beside me want this before doing that work), That’s a refreshingly humble request. So often in FOSS I see people demanding features, even being downright critical at times. It’s really nice seeing someone suggest their feature request might not be popular is rare. Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity :)

spiralx 5y ago

I like the font and spacing a lot, I'm always writing user styles to make sites (especially HN and Reddit) comfortable to read for more than a minute or two. OTOH there's between 235px and 325px of height before the first comment under the parent story/comment, which is somewhere between 1/4 and a 1/3 of the entire available height. The Back and Open keyboard hints could be moved elsewhere or the empty space up top could just be shrunk. And why isn't Toggle Full Post with Back and Open, either all at the top or all in the parent? Similarly having the "By pabue" on its own line (instead of inline with the controls below it) takes up a lot of room, and the least clear part of the UI is the comment author. It's also not obvious where you are in a list of comments, having a minimap might be nice and quite fun to develop! And being able to go forward (and back) a page would also be nice. It's a nifty project though, good work :)