Show HN: I re-designed interface for HN

Hard to objectively evaluate with understanding your goals. Why the redesign? What parts of the existing UI weren’t working for you, and why? What decision process went into each part of the stack you’ve used?<p>Most importantly, what specifically are you trying to learn from this prototype?<p>My (subjective) feedback of the mobile experience:<p>- Scroll broken on mobile Safari (iOS 18.2.1).<p>- Information density is very low compared to vanilla HN, without a visible benefit.<p>- Force-opening links in new tabs breaks my workflow, as I prefer to use the back button to return to HN rather than find the tab among my hundreds of open ones.<p>- Touch target of top links (Show, etc) is very small and thus difficult to interact with.

There isn&#x27;t much to improve in HN UI except maybe two things: megathreads with 100s of comments and recent popular posts that&#x27;s disappeared in the HN archive. In megathreads there is no way to see at a glance what comments are new. And in HN archive there is no way to show only posts with more than 100 upvotes.

It takes a very greedy approach to screen real estate for no benefit. I don’t like it for that reason. I also apparently can’t scroll on safari ios. (iPad mini using safari on iPadOS 16.1)<p>I can’t click on a username - it opens the post.<p>So you’ve added less utility taking more space, allowing me to see less information and perform fewer actions.<p>I don’t think this adds anything at all I’m afraid.

&gt; There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard&#x27;s spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know.<p>While I always appreciate the effort, bugs like these show how most Hackernews readers are antithetical to its design — when all you&#x27;re serving is paginated HTML documents with form submissions, few things can possibly break in the first place.

Won’t let me scroll down on iPhone

The comments are a huge downgrade. Far less clear in my opinion.

It doesn&#x27;t work under Netsurf, Dillo, Links, Lynx and who knows more. Congrats.

honestly i like the HN UI as-is, the thing i would want would be some form of email &#x2F; notification update when someone comments on a post i either submitted or commented on etc.<p>not sure if something like that already exists :shrug: