Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News improve its UI?

9 comments

• BjoernKW 3 hours ago

  How would you suggest to improve it? In my opinion, for its purpose, UI - and UX - of Hacker News are pretty much close to perfect.

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  • Rendello an hour ago

    It's my favourite website UI, though I don't think every site needs to be this spartan. Every time I see one of those "Hacker News for xyz" posts, they always have a nice enough site but with huge margins and padding everywhere and miss the mark.

• adamredwoods 8 hours ago

  HN is made for a specific audience, the minimal UI supports the idea of dense information without distraction.

• muzani 2 hours ago

  I'd like to see the gray body text become a little blacker, but that's about it.

• whobre 8 hours ago

  It’s fine. Why fixing something that isn’t broken?

• markus_zhang 2 hours ago

  The only requirement from me is to add favourite button to the main page.

• jasonthorsness 7 hours ago

  The community can make whatever UI it wants, using the API:

  https://github.com/HackerNews/API

  I wrote one for myself:

  https://hn.unlurker.com

  Or there are various ways to restyle the main site with a browser script.

• 10000truths 8 hours ago

  What do you believe needs improving and why?

• beardyw 7 hours ago

  Making that observation is an rite of passage on HN.