Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News improve its UI?

[liquid99]

[adamredwoods]

HN is made for a specific audience, the minimal UI supports the idea of dense information without distraction.

[whobre]

It’s fine. Why fixing something that isn’t broken?

[BjoernKW]

How would you suggest to improve it? In my opinion, for its purpose, UI - and UX - of Hacker News are pretty much close to perfect.

[Rendello → BjoernKW]

It's my favourite website UI, though I don't think every site needs to be this spartan. Every time I see one of those "Hacker News for xyz" posts, they always have a nice enough site but with huge margins and padding everywhere and miss the mark.

[jasonthorsness]

The community can make whatever UI it wants, using the API:

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

I wrote one for myself:

https://hn.unlurker.com

Or there are various ways to restyle the main site with a browser script.

[10000truths]

What do you believe needs improving and why?

[muzani]

I'd like to see the gray body text become a little blacker, but that's about it.

[markus_zhang]

The only requirement from me is to add favourite button to the main page.

[beardyw]

Making that observation is an rite of passage on HN.