alt Hacker NewsThe HN UI could do with some improvements, especially on mobile devices. The low contrast and small tap areas for common operations make it less than ideal, as well as the lack of dark mode.
I wrote my take on an ideal UI (purely clientside, against the free HN firebase API, in Elm): https://seville.protostome.com/.
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dang • 07/31/2025
Anyone who goes to the trouble of making their own HN front end is entitled to complain as much as they want, in my book! Nicely done.
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To each their own, but I find the text for the number of points and "hours ago" extremely low contrast and hard to read on your site. More importantly, I think it emphasizes the wrong thing. I almost never really care who submitted a post, but I do care about its vote count.