Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

I like this, but there's a lot of white space .. perhaps too much. Maybe a more compact view would be useful?<p>Like others have said, the grey is too pale.<p>EDIT: It would be nice if the layout made use of columns .. this could provide innovative use of wide-screen resolutions.

I like the idea, and there are several aspects of the georgify format that are pleasing. My main comment is that there is far too much vertical whitespace. The compactness of hn is pleasant to the eye, and it lets readers scan headlines quickly. A little tweaking will prevent readers from having to scroll so much.

This is my first every public release of such a thing! So please be gentle and do give any feedback that can improve the extension.

Some thoughts:<p>1.) There's a lack of contrast in the page. A visited link is the same color as a comment that is rated &#60; 0.<p>2.) The up/down vote arrows are visually far away from the name of the user. Knowing the context of who's saying something can mean the difference between a troll post and an insightful one.<p>3.) The page is no longer fluid. While this is more preference than an actual issue, I think that a fixed width format is detrimental for those of us who have widescreen monitors (or for those of us who like to tile our windows in small patches).<p>4.) Whitespace. There's a lot of it. Without your plugin, I can see all of the articles on the front page in ~1400px. With the stylesheet patch, it's about 3x that. I visit HN a lot, and will click on just about every story. As such, when I'm done reading HN all of the links have changed color. When I visit it later in the day, I can at a glance see every story that's new. Sometimes I have it autorefresh every few minutes on a separate monitor, and keeping everything concise allows me to do that.<p>Those are my thoughts. At this stage I'd say that it's pretty, but not yet functional. Work on the functional portion and I'll keep this plugin installed. Great work, keep it up!

Could you make just a stylesheet for Stylish users?<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/</a><p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnn...</a>

The grey color for a:visited is too light. I have to strain my eyes to see it.<p>edit: Also, the extra space in comment-headers is wonky. And even with my nitpicking, great job!

I like it. A little off topic, but the Google Chrome Extensions that override CSS get my brain thinking about something like this on a different scale. For instance, could someone build complete Facebook or Twitter face-lifts? If it's possible, the consequences of that permutation would be interesting. Especially now that the modern browsers are moving towards auto-update, which encourages a higher likelihood of something like this taking off.<p>If marketers starting picking up the idea, I see "shoot here to win the prize", phone number, email address collecting type of ads promising to "bring facebook back the way it was", "just enter your email address and we'll send you the link!" If you don't think this could work, just remember that a few years back people were installing emoticon packs and CometCursor just so they could have a customized, albeit terrible, experience.

You should've used csspivot.com for a quick preview link :)

From the screenshots, it reminds me a bit of Comfy Helvetica, which we discussed here a while back:<p><a href="https://comfy-helvetica.jottit.com/" rel="nofollow">https://comfy-helvetica.jottit.com/</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098340" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098340</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106056" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106056</a><p>(Not passing judgement on this theme, which seems quite nice; just thought I'd throw in a recommendation for a theme I've been using on HN since it was originally posted.)

Very nice to look at, well done.<p>A couple of points for me are that:<p>1. While it is easier to read, the combination of the larger size of the text and the vertical spacing makes it harder to scan all the topics quickly, as was possible without this style.<p>2. as already mentioned, the info sub-text is a bit soft in contrast and hard to read quickly, even though it looks nice. Suggestion: make the important info such as the numbers and username a bit more darker, but leave the repeated info such as 'points by' and 'comments' as they are.

I have tried to tweak the layout without any browser extensions. This will work on any browser but it's a 'lite version' so you can only use these to read HN. Have a look:<p>Non AJAX version: <a href="http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx</a><p>AJAX version: <a href="http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/" rel="nofollow">http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/</a>

I suggested similar thing one year ago: <a href="http://www.vcarrer.com/2010/03/hacker-news-mini-redesign-unofficial.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vcarrer.com/2010/03/hacker-news-mini-redesign-uno...</a> and the bookmarklet <a href="http://www.allapis.com/HN/HN-bookmarlet.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.allapis.com/HN/HN-bookmarlet.html</a>

Can someone please fix the typo in the title? It hurts!

Works great with the Collapsible Comments extension.<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hockhafcdegocajmjhafgjncjpodihkd" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hockhafcdegocajmjh...</a>

I think the next thing is to provide customization. That is, you can change colors and some settings (like padding and margin) to control white space. You may want also to change the font. I actually like the white space. Just the grey is a little bit pale, but this helps for concentration on the text that matters. Taste differs, not good to argue about it.<p>It's still a good move from the Author. I was thinking of something similar, but time was a constraint. I might look to help improving that one. Any Github?

I like it, but I have to agree it's about 25% larger than I'd want, including both the input field for adding a comment (which takes up 1/5 of my screen height on a large monitor) and the comments, which end up being way too long.<p>Just reducing the font sizes a little would help - having the default font so large kind of apes apps like readability, it's much bigger than is necessary.<p>(Just zooming out on my browser isn't enough, since it also reduces the width of the lines.)

Love everything apart from the fixed-width main column. Leaves me with huge margins at either side with my usual window width.

I still think this suffers from the same issue on the Stylish option, when you are way down on the comments you have a hard time knowing if the comment is an answer to the OP or to another comment, the increased indent helped but a left align or vertical line all the way from the OP post would help a ton.

It may not be perfect, but it's a much-needed improvement that improves readability. Thanks!

New update solves most of the issues raised by you guys. Thanks a lot for all the feedback.

I thought this was gimicky at first but then installed it and went back to the HN homepage and...I'm blown away. This is really REALLY great and solves a problem people have been rehashing for a long, long time -- kudos!

I just download Chrome specifically to use this. It looks great! Thank you.

I could feel myself stop squinting....is this what usability feels like?

lol.. the chrome store does not support my browser "just yet"

Not perfect but nothing ever is the first time. Installed and love it so far can't wait to see some of the suggestions mentioned put into use in the future!

I've had to stop using this now because the indents seem completely broken and all over the place. Replies appear threaded in a completely incorrect order.

I don't see how the legibility is improved. It's different, but I think the current look is just fine. Maybe I'm just lacking an eye for typography.

Here's a darker version of this, aka Metrofy.<p><a href="http://www.csspivot.com/33z8z" rel="nofollow">http://www.csspivot.com/33z8z</a><p>LCARSish too!

Thanks, I'm loving it. It is a bit biased for aesthetic but well still an improvement over the default HN css.

I'm not 100% on some the details (like whitespace and contrast), but definitely A++ for effort.

nice try, but its way better to see 20 items at a glance than to mouse around a acre of white space. readability isn't everything, workability matters too. "&#60;ctrl&#62; +" is a good compromise if your eyes are going!

I really really like this extension. Make my reading on HN much more enjoyable.

We need the option of fixing the margins ourselves, other than that great job!

Still could use a little touching up, but I love it none the less :)

I like this a lot. Could we make it the default theme?

I would very much like a Safari extension.

Very nice, i'll be keeping this installed

Too much space, going back to old way.

Using the CSS in Stylebot now. TY.

This is awesome! Thank you

An Opera port please.