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I love the idea, unfortunate the way this site is presented is such a incredibly busy and noisy way, it makes it so uncomfortable to look at I couldn't use this

I love the idea, unfortunate the way this site is presented is such a incredibly busy and noisy way, it makes it so uncomfortable to look at I couldn't use this. I think hacker news aced it with the clean look, although sometimes I wish for a dark theme.

saurik 2y ago
I just use browser extensions to get a dark theme.
- amorphousmd 2y ago
  Example: https://darkreader.org/ https://darkreader.org/
cloogshicer 2y ago
Yup, I think the background texture needs to go away and the font color of the posts needs to change.
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frogulis 2y ago
A few colour changes and it would look fine. I don't know if it's the same software as lobste.rs, but it looks almost identical apart from the colours.
iib 2y ago
As a sibling commenter said, I think the background texture is the most distracting. Other than that, I also think the tag density is higher than on Lobsters, where they seem to be using mostly one, or at most two, tags, whereas this website's front-page is using around three for each post. Maybe the color scheme as well. And perhaps more negative space can be removed by making the column wider, like it is on HN.
- esalman 2y ago
  As a gamer though I immediately noticed how easy it was to visually filter the content by tags and drill down into the details at will. It's an uncommon texture but it works for me.
- post-it 2y ago
  For me, it's the fact that the tags overflow to the next line on mobile. Some posts only have tags on the right, some only have tags on the next line, some have both. The inconsistency makes it impossible for my eyes to settle into a reading pattern.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  They've also gone with the sadly-ubiquitous "tiny fixed width column of content with heaps of whitespace on either side" pattern. Real HN does have whitespace borders after a certain width, but it mostly allows the content to scale to fit your browser window. Nothing worse than having a nice gigantic monitor and then having web content constrained to a 5" vertical strip down the middle of it.
abcd_f 2y ago
It would certainly help being able hide tags easily, as a guest. They add way too much visual noise without adding much in terms of the ux. The choice of colors is also rather unconventional and not exactly appealing.
Anon4Now 2y ago
> hacker news aced it with the clean look It's the old school magic of nested <table>'s.
- duxup 2y ago
  Tables are great provided you’re never going to do much styling with them … and maybe that’s what makes them great.
- timeon 2y ago
  You can do this with divs/lists and bit of css as well.
shortrounddev2 2y ago
Personally I love it. I'm tired of websites with no character to them
imzadi 2y ago
I immediately backed out, because it literally gave me a headache within about 5 seconds.

saurik 2y ago

I just use browser extensions to get a dark theme.

amorphousmd 2y ago
Example: https://darkreader.org/ https://darkreader.org/

cloogshicer 2y ago

Yup, I think the background texture needs to go away and the font color of the posts needs to change.

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frogulis 2y ago

A few colour changes and it would look fine. I don't know if it's the same software as lobste.rs, but it looks almost identical apart from the colours.

iib 2y ago

As a sibling commenter said, I think the background texture is the most distracting. Other than that, I also think the tag density is higher than on Lobsters, where they seem to be using mostly one, or at most two, tags, whereas this website's front-page is using around three for each post. Maybe the color scheme as well. And perhaps more negative space can be removed by making the column wider, like it is on HN.

esalman 2y ago
As a gamer though I immediately noticed how easy it was to visually filter the content by tags and drill down into the details at will. It's an uncommon texture but it works for me.
post-it 2y ago
For me, it's the fact that the tags overflow to the next line on mobile. Some posts only have tags on the right, some only have tags on the next line, some have both. The inconsistency makes it impossible for my eyes to settle into a reading pattern.
ryandrake 2y ago
They've also gone with the sadly-ubiquitous "tiny fixed width column of content with heaps of whitespace on either side" pattern. Real HN does have whitespace borders after a certain width, but it mostly allows the content to scale to fit your browser window. Nothing worse than having a nice gigantic monitor and then having web content constrained to a 5" vertical strip down the middle of it.

abcd_f 2y ago

It would certainly help being able hide tags easily, as a guest. They add way too much visual noise without adding much in terms of the ux. The choice of colors is also rather unconventional and not exactly appealing.

Anon4Now 2y ago

> hacker news aced it with the clean look It's the old school magic of nested <table>'s.

duxup 2y ago
Tables are great provided you’re never going to do much styling with them … and maybe that’s what makes them great.
timeon 2y ago
You can do this with divs/lists and bit of css as well.

shortrounddev2 2y ago

Personally I love it. I'm tired of websites with no character to them

imzadi 2y ago

I immediately backed out, because it literally gave me a headache within about 5 seconds.