Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by grawprog on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:58PM (#26867262)

Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have to scroll a whole page just to see as many stories as I can at a glance on hn. With one quick scroll, i can see an entire hn page, to get to the bottom of autonews I had to scroll 5 times and scroll past an annoying subscribe bar placed in the middle.

I don't really feel like it captures hn's ease of use and simplicity.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by shoto_io on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:04PM (#26868421)

Maybe I am getting old, but if I see "I made HN for X" I am expecting to see the exact design of HN...

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by dragonwriter on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:40PM (#26869108)

At a minimum, I’d expect a similar design aesthetic, rather than obtrusive JS, email harvesting, and a need for a tailored marketing cookie warning.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by cmeacham98 on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:23PM (#26868981)

I consider myself fairly young (only a few years out of college), and I'd definitely expect the same or very similar design.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by millzlane on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:32PM (#26868621)

It's not just you. I must be old too.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by systemvoltage on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:50PM (#26869547)

We need to own this and say HN design is far superior vast majority of web design out there. It has nothing to do with us getting old and it only gives excuses to people to not be inspired by it.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by millzlane on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:05AM (#26875659)

You're right. It's really as simple as labeling buttons. The information you want is clear and concise with no distractions and no fluff.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by shoto_io on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:28PM (#26880135)

Damn. You’re right...

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by travoc on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:46PM (#26868718)

Does the back button in the iOS app eventually float off the screen and become unusable? If so, I’m in.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by iab on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:31PM (#26869044)

Stochastic UI/UX is all the rage nowadays

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by darkteflon on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:45PM (#26869138)

That is such a great term. Instantly communicates what you’re talking about and how frustrating it is.

Yoink, I’ll definitely be borrowing that. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by weird-eye-issue on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:56PM (#26868786)

Coming from Android... You guys still have back buttons? I just swipe from the edge of my screen to go forward/back from anywhere

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by ibraheemdev on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:07PM (#26868855)

I think iOS has the forward/back gestures too.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by prh8 on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:23PM (#26868552)

At a minimum I'd hope for a copy plus fixing the issues.

But I like seeing it tailored a little more towards the target audience.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by andrewstuart on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:04PM (#26867343)

Agreed - don't get fancy - you're on a good idea with the auto focus - just clone the HN look and feel, choose a different color palette.

I wonder if part of the appeal of HN is it has no images?

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by capableweb on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:07PM (#26867377)

You don't even have to write your own software, you can just run HN ("news") directly for your niche! http://arclanguage.org/install

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by trizoza on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:44PM (#26867759)

All that work... :)

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by mysterydip on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:14PM (#26868488)

It is for me. Reception isn't always good where I go and being light on load times is one of the reasons I keep coming back.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by ipaddr on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:25PM (#26869383)

yes.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by trizoza on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:03PM (#26867326)

Thanks, I was actually exactly thinking the same when I was comparing autonews.io vs HN. But I would have to compromise the images if I wanted to make it more concise, and I've decided not to.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by grawprog on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:03PM (#26868417)

I don't think the images are a problem. Like the other commenter said i think it's the use of whitespace. The story feed seems quite narrow compared to hn. There's lots of deadspace to either side. I think you could increase the usage of space while not compromising on the images.

Please too, put the subscribe thing at the bottom of the page, not the middle. That just reminded me of a midpage banner add. It disrupted the reading flow very obviously.

It's a terrible spot for it.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by jvalencia on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:06PM (#26867361)

You can keep the images, but just reduce all the white space. Also, I'd get rid of the cookie banner, as I didn't see cookies?

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by trizoza on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:21PM (#26867533)

Thanks, someone else mentioned the cookies as well. Will have a look into whether I can remove that, as I hate the consent myself.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by p1necone on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:22PM (#26868978)

I think making the images square (or squircles) instead of round, and a little bit smaller would allow you to reclaim quite a lot of whitespace.

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Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry by aero- on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:23PM (#26868985)

dude you would love tiktok. you get one video per page.

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