Visual Hacker News
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2017
248points
107comments
#106of 2,242 in 2017
Top 5%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
19 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 15 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Design: 4 for, 6 againstIdea: 6 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Screenshot tiles make new stories more appealing and easier to evaluate before clicking.
From 3 comments
Wow - it actually made "new" look interesting to me. When I look at "new" on classic HN, the "0 point 0 comments" and expectation of low quality means I rarely click anything.…
duncanawoods on HNAwesome idea/execution. One issue with HN that I constantly run into is that I might miss an interesting article because each submission (30 on each page) look so similar. Your…
ndirish1842 on HNOne really nice thing about this is that the screenshots are built-in defense against the editorialization of the submission title.
enraged_camel on HN
Clean, smooth visual design.
From 3 comments
The visual aspect is really nice, and a welcoming change.
sarreph on HNthis is beautiful
wellwhatever on HNVery good idea and execution. It is nice to be able to compare the power image-based design versus the simplicity of the text-based design
donmatito on HN
Objections
Auto-refresh of stories is disruptive and makes users lose their place.
From 4 comments
I agree. Love the layout and the fact I can get more of an idea what the thread is about, but the constant auto refreshing, as well as the refreshing while scrolling threw me a…
cyberferret on HNIt is massively annoying and a huge UX misstep. It just happened to me: I hovered over a story I was interested and could feel the muscles in my hand tensing as I was about to…
nkrisc on HNSweet! I just think it's too hectic. It refreshes the view too often and I lose my focus.
imakesoft on HNI guess there are two types of users - constant checkers might like auto-refresh but if you check less frequently then you want to scroll deep and for us, auto-refresh is a…
duncanawoods on HN
Title text is hard to read over the thumbnail background.
From 1 comment
I'm finding it hard to read the title of the tiles because of the opacity of the background. I don't need such a large thumbnail, nor one that is so legible. How did you like…
Dowwie on HN
Infinite scrolling causes items to jump around.
From 1 comment
This is really nice, well done! One suggestion I might add is that you remove the hover effect from the image. It feels a bit inconsistent maybe? Also not 100% sure about the…
AndrewVos on HN
Requests
Make auto-refresh optional or add a toggle.
From 3 comments
Agree with this. If you have a solution please let me know. For now I'm considering adding it as a setting.
valentinvieriu on HNLove the project, thanks for putting it up. The auto-refresh was making me crazy as well - even a big 'Auto-Refresh: ON' toggle by the menu would be enough. I'm not a fan of…
localtalent on HNI'd suggest something like a toast that says "4 new stories" and you click it to refresh. It means you don't get confused by stale data but the page stays under the users…
duncanawoods on HN
Add links back to the HN comments and voting.
From 2 comments
This is pretty cool. The realtime refresh is a nice touch. It would be helpful to link back to the stories on HN so one can comment. Added to my list of HN clients:…
tedmiston on HNProviding a link to the comments on hackernews itself would be kind of nice for being able to upvote stories and the like. There are a lot of these in the new sections that I'd…
yumaikas on HN
Show thumbnails or icons for PDFs and text posts.
From 2 comments
Congrats, great concept and delivery! As feedback, I'm noticing that some thumbnails for specific types of urls (e.g. PDF's and Ask HN) aren't being generated correctly, and just…
htaunay on HNThis is really nice. A minor suggestion: I think you might as well thumbnail Ask HN/Tell HN/any other pure text posts too. This would look better than the big blank squares for…
danenania on HN
Questions
How the thumbnails are generated.
From 1 comment
Really nice!!! how are you generating the thumbnails?
rreyes1979 on HN
How the author liked working with Vue.
From 2 comments
I'm finding it hard to read the title of the tiles because of the opacity of the background. I don't need such a large thumbnail, nor one that is so legible. How did you like…
Dowwie on HNThis really is amazing. Probably one of the best clients that's out there at the moment. I recently built a one myself with Angular (https://github.com/hdjirdeh/angular2-hn) so…
MrAwesomeSauce on HN
Alternatives named
Classic Hacker News site
From 1 comment
Wow - it actually made "new" look interesting to me. When I look at "new" on classic HN, the "0 point 0 comments" and expectation of low quality means I rarely click anything.…
duncanawoods on HN
Pinterest
From 1 comment
The is cool yet also makes me feel like the hours I spend staring at HN are just as dumb as hours spent staring at designer bags on Pinterest. Having HN appear as a wall of text…
koolba on HN
hackernewsfilter.com
From 1 comment
Do what https://hackernewsfilter.com/ does, use a Bloom filter. It's simple enough.
striking on HN
Mackernews
From 1 comment
Nice job! Love seeing ppl trying to build a better way to read Hacker News content. I built this to scratch my own itch http://mackernews.com I wanted a Mac HN client (you can up…
harisamin on HN