I'm excited about this idea. I don't like using non-open source thing because I like to know that I'm investing in something which I can tweak and contribute to. Open source is all around a better idea.
I also like the idea of using on-prem models. As open source LLMs get better and hardware gets cheaper, I can see being able to use local models being the winning advantage.
I had a feeling it was going to be mentioned that I need to delegate the marketing a partner. Does this mean that for anything to be successful one must need a partner to complete the other half (or be superman and be good at both)?
* I made the background not white, which seemed to be hard on the eyes; I decided to keep the color scheme from orignal HN.
* Changed vote button icon; moved point count together with the button.
* Moved comments from the right to the left, closer to the link and vote button. Reason: it's too important of an element to have it be all on the very far right.
* Moved less important content (time and poster) to the far right.
* Internal stuff: I'm using localStorage APIs to cache the data I'm scrapping from a third party hackernews API source. This is because the source kept getting hiccups.
Here are my questions to the rest of those who are still interested in this endeavor:
Should I go with grey text on white, or black text on tanish grey (like it is now)?
Are the icons too distracting? Are they good, or would you suggest I do something else? Maybe I should ditch the orange background on these icons, and go with orange text when mousing over the buttons?
Some idea I have planned:
* Search field in header
* Automatic next page loading with ---page n--- separators (if I can get this to work with the API I'm using)
* Replace submit button with a visually persistent composer item.
This is a continuation of a post I made a couple days ago, title "Hacker News Redesign". It was a link to a jsbin. This time, it's a Github Page, which means it can update, so check back often.
I plan on accepting feedback on this redesign. I already took some feedback from the last post. This time, I can update the project upon feedback, and keep a dialog about the design.
I want to remove the metadata if I can. Would you agree that the titles and "comhead" (the domain name) should be the visually promenant part? My goal is to minimize on the meta as much as possible without removing the usefulness of it.
There will be less white space and it will be used more scarcely, however I'd rather use a little bit of white space instead of something like a horizontal line. Wouldn't you agree with this? :P
I agree. My intention is to use white space to separate things, vs lines or other graphical distractions. Having said that, I still need to work on the list part of the design.
Wow! I really didn't expect this much attention and feedback! First, I want to say thanks for all the comments!
I designed this last, late California night. So the design isn't finished; this is a first draft.
Obviously the posts themselves are an issue. I didn't put much attention to the posts. I'll do that. Some of the feedback I got on it were: 1. Larger vote buttons. 2. Less contrast (too hard on the eyes). 3. Too much white space, a little too small of text. 4. Focus on title, not author.
Some other feedback I got was on the orange color. I pulled this straight from HN's header bar. I guess because the bar is taller that the color is brighter. I need to think about if it's the color or the surrounding elements that make it feel this way.
Keep up the commenting and feedback. I'm not finished here yet. I really liked the HackerWeb design, but it's too narrow; it feels like a mobile app. I'll pull some inspiration from there, but I really want to bring the design back to a "hacker" feel. So stay tooned!