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I would prefer something between this and current HN, simply because the number of mis-taps on HN is still annoyingly high with everything being so close on a mobile, but I agree the design here is a touch OTT for space


Yeah, I've been there too, I'm working on an approach for more readability. I went through other HN clients and found that they were expecting multi-tap upvotes which makes things, again, same as difficult as og hn interface, it's a little bit of historic but less has less usability at the sane time.

If you'd like to include features from current HN what would they be?


I like much of it currently but I would ideally put "hide" and "flag" somewhere less accessible.

In the main view pretty much all the details are useful but I'd be fine to drop the name of the poster of an article (this never guides my attention to an article in the slightest, unlike the other details).

It would be fine to play around with layouts for points, time since post and source site, possibly even using abbreviations to save space, especially if they were positioned differently.

For instance:

  19p | 7hrs | 20c
Instead of:

  19 points by hadat 7 hours ago flag | hide | 20 comments


This seems a better approach thanks, it just popped another feature I was hoping I had on HN telling me how long the article is.

Something like a reading hourglass figure, so I spend less time when necessary and more when I have available.

Also, btw does domain info count? in your experience for the ability of clicking on a link?




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