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I would split out design based voting and leave interesting news as text, HN-style. The way it's currently presented just doesn't incite me to really click or i
by jlees 17y ago
I would split out design based voting and leave interesting news as text, HN-style. The way it's currently presented just doesn't incite me to really click or interact, and seems weird - reminds me a lot of Evernote, actually. I may be an outlier, though.
- adamhowell 17y agoIt's styled after grid-based approaches like the NY Times' article skimmer: http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/ http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/ which I personally find pretty readable. But the appeal of that experiment is probably due to the fact that it's less busy than Webdesignerd, so I'll work on that.
- abossy 17y agoI'm gonna go ahead and suggest the opposite: keep the news as is, but reduce the textual noise. That is, remove the tld, "upvote," submitter, etc. and only show them on mouseover. These are all distractions from the important content, the article names. That's why the NY Times skimmer works; all the metadata is absent. Since your audience are front-end designers and developers, they like to look at pretty things. The Hacker News crowd strives for functionality.