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Re:Hacker News Redesign by chevas on Friday April 20, 2012 @09:56PM (#3870600)
"As is" is still lacking. Reading these comments across almost the entire width of my monitor is not good design. You do get information density, but my belief is that in the case of reading paragraphs, information density is secondary to readability.
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Re:Hacker News Redesign by mehulkar on Friday April 20, 2012 @10:12PM (#3870631)
Agreed. That 70 character width rule would be nice on HN.
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Re:Hacker News Redesign by redthrowaway on Friday April 20, 2012 @10:21PM (#3870651)
All of these things may be true, but the biggest usability issue facing HN right now is load times. HN has undergone exponential growth even in the short time I've been here, and the site hasn't kept up with it. Given that we're all programmers, perhaps we should take it upon ourselves to dig through the source and see what we can speed up.
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Re:Hacker News Redesign by eru on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:19PM (#3872484)
> HN has undergone exponential growth even in the short time I've been here, [...]

Nitpick: Observing exponential growth doesn't depend on the time span.

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Re:Hacker News Redesign by redthrowaway on Saturday April 21, 2012 @03:25PM (#3872732)
You're correct; that was sloppily written of me.
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Re:Hacker News Redesign by blahedo on Saturday April 21, 2012 @05:11PM (#3873015)
The solution to this is not making a design that is too wide to fit in my window, however.
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