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Let’s look at the very website we on. Would you prefer for every clickable element here to be a button? Or even underlined as a link? Do you ever get confused n
by exitb 4mo ago
Let’s look at the very website we on. Would you prefer for every clickable element here to be a button? Or even underlined as a link? Do you ever get confused navigating this website?
- Telaneo 4mo ago> Would you prefer for every clickable element here to be a button? Or even underlined as a link? Yes. > Do you ever get confused navigating this website? No, because I've been browsing the web for a while and know that every website does things their own way.
- exitb 4mo agoGiven it’s a website mostly for experienced computer people who, like you, don’t really need those visual cues, don’t you think adding them would be superfluous?
- Telaneo 4mo agoNo.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoIt's a website for experienced computer people, and I appreciate its minimalist aesthetic, but that doesn't mean there's not enormous room for improvement.
- ahartmetz 4mo agoI have recently discovered a config option "Underline all links" in Firefox, and it's really nice, actually.
- anadem 4mo agoThanks! Settings > General > Browsing > Always underline links (or in about:config set layout.css.always_underline_links true )
- ahartmetz 4mo agoIt's visually noisy tbh, but I'd recommend to stick with it for a few days and see if you can get used to it. It took me about two days. So nice to see where the "buttons" are.
- ahartmetz 4mo agoIt also works on Firefox for Android through about:config, which is ostensibly unavailable, but not really: chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml - from there, you can also re-enable about:config by toggling general.aboutConfig.enable
- kbelder 4mo agoInteresting. Chrome doesn't have this option, but if you have stylebot or other extension it's easy to add a global CSS rule that adds it. I'll try it out for a while and see how it goes.
- marcosdumay 4mo agoNow that you've said it, I think PG would have designed a better site if he didn't hide the underlines. But also, it wouldn't get any worse if the same design was kept and the underlines were enabled. And it would improve the usability for first-time users, but the nature of HN is that those are always very few.
- desdenova 4mo agoWouldn't hurt if interactive elements didn't require me to zoom in order to interact with them on mobile.
- Terr_ 4mo agoI live in regular fear that my fingertip will hit the wrong up/down icon.
- projektfu 4mo agoI do it all the time and sometimes I notice and unflag an article. But often not.
- Terr_ 4mo agoI find accidental flags rarer due to the layout versus things I'm trying to tap, however the few times it's happened I only discovered it days or months later when visiting the "flagged" page [0]. Still, there's a kind of guilt, like realizing you unknowingly kicked a puppy who isn't there anymore. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged
- slopinthebag 4mo agoI often forget you can click on the timestamp. In fact for years I didn't know how to flag comments because of this.