I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit redesign?

Re:I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit red... by greendestiny on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @12:03AM (#201759)

I like the whitespace, font sizes and colours. The header is much clearer. The positioning/typography of the rank number, arrows and vote count sucks. The rank, vote 'spinner' and title/comments seem to occupy three different vertical alignments and the result is very confusing. At the very least aligning the rank number with the title would be an improvement. Potentially you could align the uparrow with the title, vote count with the submitted text and the downarrow with the comments link.

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Re:I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit red... by rrwhite on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @12:51AM (#201781)

I have some of the same alignment issues especially when a entry has a long title.

I mocked up what it would look like if everything for an entry was vertically centered: http://skitch.com/rrwhite/cm3m/reddit-centered-mod

I'm not sure yet whether I think that's an improvement :)

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Re:I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit red... by greendestiny on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @02:20AM (#201834)

I think its an improvement. Not generally a fan of things being centred, but its better to be properly centred than sort of randomly near centre.

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Re:I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit red... by LPTS on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @03:26AM (#201866)

To my eyes it's an improvement. Not perfect.

I think you should put the arrows to the left side, use simpler arrow graphics, and indicate the arrows are linked to the points by making them the same color. Then, make the 1, 2, 3 a lighter color that is there, but more in the background, and delineated in function. You also need to center them between the points and the left edge of the screen. They are slightly too far to the right to my eyes. This would meet your informational requirements while clearing the clutter that is harshing my zen. I think you should keep the change in the screenshot too. The balance is just so much better.

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