HN UI/UX Criticisms

Commenting this from HACK. The default HN interface does have problems. The buttons are indeed too small. The comments indentation is a little too small. Lack of notifications. A separate page on clicking reply, etc.I was spoiled by Apollo for Reddit and HACK has done the same thing for HN. Thank you!

How does HN stack up in terms of accessibility? Anyone using a screen reader with HN? What do you wish was different?

The HN layout is not really optimized for mobile. The text is quite small, and upvoting is a pain.

If you add commenting this would be a complete replacement for desktop viewing of HN for me!

How about a mobile friendly version of HN? :)

Same here. Of all websites I frequent HN has the best mobile experience. The only thing they need to fix is indeed up and down being too close to each other.

I see the same problem with HN tbh. So much so that I built newz.dev as alternative HN reader, meant to be minimal and easy to eyes.

There is any advantage of it over conventional browsing HN ?

Hmm. I always considered HN to be one of the cleanest sites that displays dense info. Props for going through with the project though! I'm sure you learned a lot of useful things.If you want some feedback: I'm hvaing a hard time distinguishing one post from another. Maybe changing the color of the author & comments links could change that? Maybe add some spacing, so that the title & metadata is grouped together? This id already starting to approach native HN though. :)

First impact: compared to HN it's needlessly colorful (not bad but a little distracting), it's much less compact, and on my slow and filtered network connection there is one apparently permanent spinner overlay per story (stories don't open).Say no to useless Javascript! Why risk bad user experience?