Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader

Re:Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader by siddienahar on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:46PM (#24022418)

I appreciate original version of HN more. As compared to other content platforms, I come to HN to actually read and just not to scroll. From that pov, I like text better than other elements visible to me. More than that, the current design took too much space, showing 1 post per scroll.

One suggestion for your website is to accommodate heading on left half of the screen (desktop view) coz usually most of the people have a mental model of trying to find heading first and reading from L2R.

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Re:Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader by pjc50 on Monday August 03, 2020 @04:12AM (#24035236)

Wow, yes - the main thing this design achieves is waste 90% of the space.

Sometimes I'd appreciate a larger font on mobile. I don't want larger margins!

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Re:Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader by LargoLasskhyfv on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:54PM (#24044446)

I tend to agree about the waste of space, but using it on the desktop it's good for discoverability by lazy scrolling, I think.

At least I discovered many articles that way, lazily switching categories, which I'd have missed otherwise.

There are other HN-frontends which do similar things, but with the exception of [1] https://hckrnews.com/ none stuck with me so far.

This one I liked, bookmarked, and intend to use more often until further notice.

edit: What is missing for me is the ability of simple "click-through" to the original HN for voting/commenting without having to give my user/password to another site. That won't happen!

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Re:Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader by piccogabriele on Thursday August 06, 2020 @12:00PM (#24072186)

Thanks for the feedback. User/password are not sent anywhere, you can inspect the login function here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich/blob/maste...

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