Ask HN: I realigned HN a bit, what do you think?

I'm somewhat new to HN, but I don't like the new look. The existing one is much easier on the eyes.<p>A good UI should not introduce new colors or visual elements that are unnecessary. Zebra coloring of rows has its place, but not here. Don't need the lines between posts (lines are for grids, and this doesn't need one). Additional box around arrows unnecessary. Text too small. Contrast of white on black at top draws eyes too much to title and menu.<p>Basically, please leave things as they are or ditch this design. I know you've spent a lot of time on it, but you will not gain users at as high of a rate with the new design.

TL;DR: improve the accessibility of the best comments<p>I've always thought the real value of this site was in the comments.<p>Sometimes a thoughtful comment gets lost because it has no replies, while a less substantive thread might be dominating the discussion.<p>The voting system doesn't always help either, since the fanboy (and pariah) effect causes some comments to be inflated (or rejected) based on who said them, not their significance or merits.<p>So if you can think of a good way to present the best comments for a given link or topic, that would be a useful improvement.

I suspect that most HNers don't really think that the current site has many issues.<p>The lack of contrast between text and background <i>is</i> an obvious problem though, and one that the redesign linked here doesn't really help too much, imo. Also, the alternating rows are actually kinda distracting.<p>However, if you are looking for more style (I suspect that most users are NOT), you can check out my project: <a href="http://quippd.com" rel="nofollow">http://quippd.com</a>

Makes it look more like Reddit, which is a site so hard on the eyes that I just don't care if it has anything worthwhile to say.

And I did this earlier in the week before the "redesign HN" trend started to appear on the site. Now I feel like a total bandwagoner, heh.

It looks great, but I don't think it will be adopted. The alternatively colored rows should be implemented, they help a lot.

Not my favorite. The current design, IMO, suites the audience and content perfectly.

HN isn't broken. So please, don't try to fix it.