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What about HN is not user friendly? I think it's a breath of fresh (stale?) air.

by laputan_machine 4y ago

muzani 4y ago
I believe the internet term is dank air.
FerretFred 4y ago
Yeah! I really miss all those ads (not!)
dividedbyzero 4y ago
My pet peeves: No dark mode, sorely lacking for me for reading in the dark, then there is no indication at all that you've got replies (at least a tiny number next to threads perhaps?) and the up/downvote buttons are too small to reliably tap on mobile. Oh, and enumeration support would be fantastic, the workarounds tend to be hard to read. Other than that, I think it's delightfully ugly and lightweight.
- PickledHotdog 4y ago
  You may not be down for an app/mobile experience, but Harmonic is beautiful and has a dark mode
  - dividedbyzero 4y ago
    I can't seem to find Harmonic in the iOS App Store, is it Android-only? Also, HN apps tend to make it harder to send interesting things to Roam or the laptop or Safari's reading list, the website makes that really convenient.
  - russelg 4y ago
    Thanks for the recommendation, just switched to it!
- kazinator 4y ago
  I use the Dark Reader extension for Firefox; HN looks fine under that. Having to separately configure individual sites or web apps for dark mode is a nonstarter anyway; if you could do that, would you really want to? Ideally, you should be able to set your device to dark mode, and everything would follow: every app, every site in the browser. Some combination of setting your OS to dark mode and using a dark mode extension in the browser sort of approximates that, imperfectly.
  - SirAiedail 4y ago
    No need to set it per individual page. There are (arguably easy to use) ways for a web page to know the user's OS-level color scheme preference [0]. We still need the workaround via extensions or Userstyles for the ones that don't implement that, sadly. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

What about HN is not user friendly? I think it's a breath of fresh (stale?) air.

muzani 4y ago

I believe the internet term is dank air.

FerretFred 4y ago

Yeah! I really miss all those ads (not!)

dividedbyzero 4y ago

My pet peeves: No dark mode, sorely lacking for me for reading in the dark, then there is no indication at all that you've got replies (at least a tiny number next to threads perhaps?) and the up/downvote buttons are too small to reliably tap on mobile. Oh, and enumeration support would be fantastic, the workarounds tend to be hard to read. Other than that, I think it's delightfully ugly and lightweight.

PickledHotdog 4y ago
You may not be down for an app/mobile experience, but Harmonic is beautiful and has a dark mode
- dividedbyzero 4y ago
  I can't seem to find Harmonic in the iOS App Store, is it Android-only? Also, HN apps tend to make it harder to send interesting things to Roam or the laptop or Safari's reading list, the website makes that really convenient.
- russelg 4y ago
  Thanks for the recommendation, just switched to it!
kazinator 4y ago
I use the Dark Reader extension for Firefox; HN looks fine under that. Having to separately configure individual sites or web apps for dark mode is a nonstarter anyway; if you could do that, would you really want to? Ideally, you should be able to set your device to dark mode, and everything would follow: every app, every site in the browser. Some combination of setting your OS to dark mode and using a dark mode extension in the browser sort of approximates that, imperfectly.
- SirAiedail 4y ago
  No need to set it per individual page. There are (arguably easy to use) ways for a web page to know the user's OS-level color scheme preference [0]. We still need the workaround via extensions or Userstyles for the ones that don't implement that, sadly. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...