Often, I find myself in situation when I've to interact with HN on multiple devices, the idea is to prevent zooming into each post to focus on the post, maybe information density thing works for me but only sometimes(such as when I'm working on a new idea research), I often view HN top page as stats of what people's opinions or sentiments are on the topics, which can often be wrong unless I've read the article and completed the flow of information. Decision process was:
- Readability of Title
- Ensuring all the posts can be least distracting and fair for upvotes(that's why no favicon or metadata)
- Removal of adrenaline rush factor
Thanks for your (subjective) feedback for this prototype,
- I didn't test on Safari touch (will be including that in CI)
- information density of HN is one of the things that could
become a compromise, I'm hoping to find a solution to that with resizability
- That's duly noted, I understand how navigating through tabs can be.
- I tried going with a button based approach but it only covered more screen real estate so I ditched it for links.
Most importantly, what specifically are you trying to learn from this prototype?
My (subjective) feedback of the mobile experience:
- Scroll broken on mobile Safari (iOS 18.2.1).
- Information density is very low compared to vanilla HN, without a visible benefit.
- Force-opening links in new tabs breaks my workflow, as I prefer to use the back button to return to HN rather than find the tab among my hundreds of open ones.
- Touch target of top links (Show, etc) is very small and thus difficult to interact with.