Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script

Re:Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script by pg on Sunday October 21, 2007 @07:03PM (#70986)

The main reason it looks better is the white background, which I've been thinking of switching to. Otherwise it's a net lose. That productish look wastes a lot of space at the top of the screen. The current page looks the way it does partly because it works better on small screened mobile devices, which is an important factor for a news site.

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Re:Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script by ed on Sunday October 21, 2007 @07:50PM (#70994)

Sounds like you should consider selective style sheets for mobile devices. That way you can accommodate small displays and not at the expense of regular users.

While the white background helps, I tried to pay a bit of attention to type size and color contrast as well. The result of this effort is that you immediately know what's important, vs. what's not.

Two other things to consider:

1) Utility pane on the right, which I consider to be a big usability win (thread comments when you want them; your own comments when not on a thread)

2) A visual distinction for discussion threads vs. link threads

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Re:Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script by greendestiny on Sunday October 21, 2007 @11:56PM (#71045)

how does the right hand pane work? I can see my user threads, but I cant get it to display an articles comments.

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Re:Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script by ed on Monday October 22, 2007 @12:22AM (#71047)

Yep, that's one of the broken features I mentioned below. The whole script is admittedly over-reliant on YC's markup when finding DOM elements.

When I wrote it, the script was nothing more than a dirty hack. I'm beginning to think it might be time for a revisit. (Considering I'm already distracted by the Sox ALCS win...)

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Re:Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script by cstejerean on Sunday October 21, 2007 @07:29PM (#70988)

Speaking of mobile devices, the current tiny arrows don't work well at all on a mobile device, especially on the iPhone (since there is no stylus). I have to zoom way in to make sure that I press the right one.

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Re:Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script by pg on Sunday October 21, 2007 @07:46PM (#70993)

Yeah, I noticed that too. I'll fix that.

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Re:Great News.YC Greasemonkey Script by joeguilmette on Sunday October 21, 2007 @07:34PM (#70992)

i actually dont really even like the color/button changes that much at all.

what i do like is having the threads and the news side by side.

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