Ask HN: Aren't the HN voting buttons too small?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053745

by SingAlong • 14 years ago

24 6 14 years ago

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Hey guys,

I feel the voting buttons on HN are too small. Now that the points aren't visible on comments, I'm not even sure which button I clicked on. I'm worried if I've been down-voting good discussions by mistake.

Does anyone else have the same issue? If yes, can we have bigger voting buttons please?

readme• 14 years ago

I think its safe to assume that any down votes this post gets were by accident due to the button size.

quadrahelix• 14 years ago

Yes.

bdfh42• 14 years ago

I like the small and discreet vote buttons myself.

Try <ctrl><+> a few times (in Chrome anyway) if you need a bigger target ;)

SingAlong• 14 years ago

I wanted to mention that I was aware of this trick in the thread description, but removed it because I thought it was obvious. It's too many key strokes and clicks to zoom in, upvote and then zoom out again to read text at normal size.

joshstrange• 14 years ago

If you really find the buttons to be too small then why don't you look in to writing (or finding) a userscript to make them bigger/different? I only suggest it because the likelihood that HN is going to change is very low.

booruguru• 14 years ago

Yes. The voting button is way too small. In fact, upon first glance it's not really evident that it's even a button. I like minimalist design, but HN has taken the idea a bit too far.

Ask HN: Aren't the HN voting buttons too small?

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