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It takes a very greedy approach to screen real estate for no benefit. I don’t like it for that reason. I also apparently can’t scroll on safari ios. (iPad mini

It takes a very greedy approach to screen real estate for no benefit. I don’t like it for that reason. I also apparently can’t scroll on safari ios. (iPad mini using safari on iPadOS 16.1) I can’t click on a username - it opens the post. So you’ve added less utility taking more space, allowing me to see less information and perform fewer actions. I don’t think this adds anything at all I’m afraid.

nmstoker 2y ago
I would prefer something between this and current HN, simply because the number of mis-taps on HN is still annoyingly high with everything being so close on a mobile, but I agree the design here is a touch OTT for space
- vednig 2y ago
  Yeah, I've been there too, I'm working on an approach for more readability. I went through other HN clients and found that they were expecting multi-tap upvotes which makes things, again, same as difficult as og hn interface, it's a little bit of historic but less has less usability at the sane time. If you'd like to include features from current HN what would they be?
  - nmstoker 2y ago
    I like much of it currently but I would ideally put "hide" and "flag" somewhere less accessible. In the main view pretty much all the details are useful but I'd be fine to drop the name of the poster of an article (this never guides my attention to an article in the slightest, unlike the other details). It would be fine to play around with layouts for points, time since post and source site, possibly even using abbreviations to save space, especially if they were positioned differently. For instance: 19p | 7hrs | 20c Instead of: 19 points by hadat 7 hours ago flag | hide | 20 comments
    - vednig 2y ago
      This seems a better approach thanks, it just popped another feature I was hoping I had on HN telling me how long the article is. Something like a reading hourglass figure, so I spend less time when necessary and more when I have available. Also, btw does domain info count? in your experience for the ability of clicking on a link?
vednig 2y ago
Thanks a lot, if it's not working on safari then it definitely is a touch issue of sorts, I've followed the approach to reduce unnecessary information such as numbering and upvotes, but text resizing is something I'm working on, by the time of first release I think it'll be ready to concentrate or expand info on screen. And,uh usernames that's a good catch, thank you for the feedback.
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nmstoker 2y ago

I would prefer something between this and current HN, simply because the number of mis-taps on HN is still annoyingly high with everything being so close on a mobile, but I agree the design here is a touch OTT for space

vednig 2y ago
Yeah, I've been there too, I'm working on an approach for more readability. I went through other HN clients and found that they were expecting multi-tap upvotes which makes things, again, same as difficult as og hn interface, it's a little bit of historic but less has less usability at the sane time. If you'd like to include features from current HN what would they be?
- nmstoker 2y ago
  I like much of it currently but I would ideally put "hide" and "flag" somewhere less accessible. In the main view pretty much all the details are useful but I'd be fine to drop the name of the poster of an article (this never guides my attention to an article in the slightest, unlike the other details). It would be fine to play around with layouts for points, time since post and source site, possibly even using abbreviations to save space, especially if they were positioned differently. For instance: 19p | 7hrs | 20c Instead of: 19 points by hadat 7 hours ago flag | hide | 20 comments
  - vednig 2y ago
    This seems a better approach thanks, it just popped another feature I was hoping I had on HN telling me how long the article is. Something like a reading hourglass figure, so I spend less time when necessary and more when I have available. Also, btw does domain info count? in your experience for the ability of clicking on a link?

vednig 2y ago

Thanks a lot, if it's not working on safari then it definitely is a touch issue of sorts, I've followed the approach to reduce unnecessary information such as numbering and upvotes, but text resizing is something I'm working on, by the time of first release I think it'll be ready to concentrate or expand info on screen. And,uh usernames that's a good catch, thank you for the feedback.

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