I enjoy the Georgify theme by Tuhin Kumar. It's a highly legible theme and is available as a userstyle or Chrome extension. <a href="http://tuhinkumar.com/portfolio/georgify-for-hacker-news/" rel="nofollow">http://tuhinkumar.com/portfolio/georgify-for-hacker-news/</a>
I just want bigger buttons on mobile devices. I do most of my reading on a tablet and almost never vote because the effort of zooming in to make the buttons targetable is just too much. Even dealing with typing in this tiny entry box is highly obnoxious.
I actually like Hacker News' condensed retro web look. It has a very lightweight bare metal feel to it. I am not really a fan of designs that have "foofy" margins which make the noise to signal ratio higher.
I created this two months ago as an experiment to see if I could improve the readability of the site. Every month someone creates one of these but I've never been happy with them so I wanted to see if I could do better myself.<p>I then applied it and let it sit for two months to give myself some time to try it out. I decided I like it, so I've kept it, and now it's time to share it and see if you like it and what improvements you'd want to see.
I came here to yell at you that you didn't include a screenshot. But since no one else was complaining about it, I looked again and read all the text in the README and found the small normal paragraph that says I should open the screenshot.png file in the repo.<p>Can't you just include that in the README? github supports any markup format you want in READMEs.
The designer inside of me is loving this. Thank you.<p>While I also love the retro feel of the regular HN, this is just so much easier on the eyes. And when considering how long I spend on HN these days, this is probably a good idea... My eyes will thank me in the future :)
And here is a version that is a greasemonkey script so that you don't have to install an extra plugin (for Chrome anyways). Just download in Chrome or drag and drop onto Chrome.<p><a href="https://github.com/overshard/greasemonkey-cleanerhn" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/overshard/greasemonkey-cleanerhn</a><p><a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/128106" rel="nofollow">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/128106</a><p>(Direct GitHub Raw Link) <a href="https://github.com/overshard/greasemonkey-cleanerhn/raw/master/cleaner_hn.user.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/overshard/greasemonkey-cleanerhn/raw/mast...</a>
It seems like a lot of people maintain code for these stylesheets on github (so it's easy for the developer to maintain), and then publish to stylebot or stylish (so it's easy for the user to update and maintain). I've always wondered why there's not better integration between the two. It seems like it should be pretty easy to create a service like stylebot that pulls stylesheets from github repos (just from master, of course).
Looks good, but the textured background definitely doesn't help readability. The lighter grey on the visited text is fairly difficult to read against it.
Nice, I personally like this one better because it has bigger type:<p><a href="http://stylebot.me/styles/248" rel="nofollow">http://stylebot.me/styles/248</a>
I absolutely love this idea and new styling. Ive forked it to provide bigger font sizes for people like me who are kinda blind. <a href="https://github.com/xpose2000/Cleaner-Hacker-News/commit/2cce055427528cab607e020cbc681c921fb1fe44" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/xpose2000/Cleaner-Hacker-News/commit/2cce...</a>
Could this be made to also eliminate articles regarding certain topics or from certain sources? I really hate the proliferation of gadgety religious flamewars, and the enabling of bloggers whose modus operandi is just to stoke the fires of these ridiculous squabbles.
Absoloutely love the theme. I use <a href="http://hn.gethifi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hn.gethifi.com/</a> on my phone for Hacker News, so this theme makes the desktop experience a lot more consistent with my mobile experience
Hacking HN content helped me more with readability than hacking the style. I wrote a userjs to apply kill filters <a href="https://github.com/dnewcome/hn-plonk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dnewcome/hn-plonk</a>
I really like it, and I also reported this issue:<p><a href="https://github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News/issues/1" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News/issues/1</a><p>That's the only problem for me, good job!
I once tried reddit's default look, its old mobile look and its new beta mobile look on my psp. All 3 looked terrible so I was very surprised that HN looked perfect on both. It doesn't need any fixing.
I much prefer Hacker News +:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oieefcckcbbgniifdhhialgkmghahjgl" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oieefcckcbbgniifdh...</a><p>It includes keyboard shortcuts, too!
Tweaked it a bit for better readability. Text size, spacing, width, a few colors, background texture...maybe a few other things.<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/DMURgDsv" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/DMURgDsv</a>
*Do note that for those applying to YC, the styling does not carry over to the application pages. The entire page is orange.<p>This is not an unbearable problem or anything, but just wanted to point it out!
Thanks, looks nice.<p>Does anyone else find the font type and size more difficult to read? The size seems smaller but it's 2px bigger, hmm.<p>Edit: I increased the font size to 18 px inside of Stylebot to better fit my needs.
It doesn't fix the appearance of the comments section, but lately I've been browsing the homepage via <a href="http://hckrnews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hckrnews.com/</a>.
You can also add these stylesheets to Safari using the User CSS plugin, found here: <a href="http://code.grid.in.th/" rel="nofollow">http://code.grid.in.th/</a>