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The design of HN has similar issues, honestly, especially on links you've already visited: https://matrix.theblob.org/hn-original-style.png https://matrix.theb
by Sophira 5y ago
The design of HN has similar issues, honestly, especially on links you've already visited:
https://matrix.theblob.org/hn-original-style.png https://matrix.theblob.org/hn-original-style.png
Which parts are links? Which aren't? It's a little more obvious that the main text is a link but not obvious that you can click to view the comments. (It can be inferred, of course, but I don't believe that should be necessary.)
A little styling to add underlines back to links, plus a little bold to indicate the comments page, fixes this:
https://matrix.theblob.org/hn-my-style.png https://matrix.theblob.org/hn-my-style.png
Some might say that this looks ugly, and that's a valid view. But to me, it's usable.
(Why are both the "time posted" link and the comments link bolded? Because they both go to the same place. I didn't even know before I made this style that that was the case! I was surprised to see that the style I made did both, but I'm not complaining.)
- Ambroisie 5y agoCould you share your style? I'd like to use it too.
- Sophira 5y agoSure! I've cleaned up the CSS a little bit since it was originally only for private use, and published it under CC0 at https://userstyles.world/style/3825/hacker-news-underlines-comment-page-boldening https://userstyles.world/style/3825/hacker-news-underlines-c... . You should be able to use it with an extension like Stylus[0]. [0] https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/#readme https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/#readme