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Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by Brajeshwar on Friday May 03, 2024 @09:44AM (#40247594)
I believe the visual noise can be reduced a bit. Here are a few personal ideas;

- Replace the loud icons with just an UP/DOWN arrow for voting.

- Pill Labels/Tags can have a subdued contrast — “24 minutes ago”, “GitHub”, etc. They can be just hyperlinks.

- Instead bring out the contrast in the taglines. I want to read that along with the title.

- The logos of various technology might be enough without their titles, such as “Python”, “NextJs”.

- Please make me scroll the page and not a frame inside a page.

Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by eddd-ddde on Friday May 03, 2024 @10:41AM (#40248242)
I'm curious what's the argument for the last point.

I also tend to make apps that have nested containers scroll with the content. Anything wrong with it in particular?

Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by doix on Friday May 03, 2024 @11:03AM (#40248477)
It wastes vertical space, most people have horizontal monitors. On mobile devices it takes up a lot of the screen despite them being vertical.

It sometimes breaks thing like "space" to scroll, depends where focus ends up.

Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by eddd-ddde on Friday May 03, 2024 @11:15AM (#40248647)
I use it mostly for web interactive apps, I guess mobile is not really my use case then.

I'll be more attentive to space scroll tho.

Thanks for the comment.

Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by Brajeshwar on Friday May 03, 2024 @10:12PM (#40254251)
Even on the Desktop Web Browser (where I was), by default the scrollbars are hidden (macOS). It is not apparent that the content is scrollable but confined in a frame/container. I had to stumble on it when I graze over the Magic Mouse because the cursor is outside of the content (inside the frame/container).

Contents inside a frame is OK but make it apparent, say, have a thin border, with a lightly different backgound and have the scrollbar forced if the content is larger than the defined height of the frame.

Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by super256 on Friday May 03, 2024 @10:48AM (#40248311)
The scroll is not properly restored between browser navigations.
Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by skeeter2020 on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:05PM (#40250507)
it's a major accessibility hinderance as well
Re:Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates by sansjack on Friday May 03, 2024 @10:10AM (#40247860)
thanks for the feedback, i'm trying to better my frontend skill so i really appreciate this!