alt Hacker NewsLooks really nice, I like the idea.
But can they please empower a user interface designer to simply improve the margins and paddings of their interface? With a bunch of small improvements it would look significantly better. Just fix the spacing between buttons and borders and other UI elements.
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One could argue that visible borders are a feature, not a bug.
If you are trying to maximize for accessibility, that is.
This just looks like a standard _old_ *nix project. I've used Tiny, a couple of decades ago IIRC, from a magazine cover CD.
I imagine the sign-off date of 2008, the lack of very simple to apply mobile css, and no https to secure the downloads (if it had it then it would probably be SSL).
This speaks to me of a project that's 'good enough', or abandoned, for/by those who made it. Left out to pasture as 'community dev submissions accepted'.
I've not bothered to look, but wouldn't surprise me if the UI is hardcoded in assembly and a complete ballache to try and change.
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Modern UX trends are a scourge of excessive whitespace and low information density that get in the way of actually accomplishing tasks.
Any project that rejects those trends gets bonus points in my book.