I love the simplicty of YC News, but it's hard for me to read -- Just me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109

by staunch • 19 years ago

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staunch• 19 years ago

I love YC News, and definitely appreciate PG's minimalist tendencies (which made reddit so great). But there's something about this site that makes it hard for me to read. I've been browsing with "View->Page Style->No Style" which helps.

I'm thinking it's something trivial like the gray visited links and small fonts.

Anyone else find it hard to read?

veritas• 19 years ago

Its usually fine. The user pages are a bit cluttered with all the history of a certain user. And yep, small fonts and grayed out links that blend into the background are small gripes on my part as well.

PindaxDotCom• 19 years ago

Yeah I agree. I visit the site a few times a day. Its hard to read, and hard to tell if I missed a good post too! Perhaps organizing posts by date might help.

danw• 19 years ago

I'm ok with it but I have to increase the text size to read it. This isn't exclusive to YC news, I have to increase font size on most webpages due to my poor sight and mac os' irritating support for external monitors.

pg3• 19 years ago

Vote this up if you want the fonts bigger and visited links darker.

pg3• 19 years ago

Or if you prefer things the way they are, vote this up.

volida• 19 years ago

exploiting the top comment :)

my only request is that my comments that received reply could have a different color so that i know they were replied because I missed reading replies on time.

keizo• 19 years ago

or if titles should be bigger w/less contrast. I like .title 11pt or 12pt and a:link less than black, maybe #222222 or so.

mynameishere• 19 years ago

And vote THIS up if you want there to be user-configurable values via SQL injection exploits:

http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid="begin;update Skins set Font='Comic Sans' where userName='mynameishere';commit;"

pg3• 19 years ago

SQL injection? You'd need something more like alist injection.

bootload• 19 years ago

'... fonts bigger ...'

In Fox, "Ctrl +' for bigger and 'Ctrl -' for smaller

'... and visited links darker ...'

good point in Fox de-select, "Edit-Firefox preferences-Content-Colors-Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections" will change the link colours but also the background.

drop19• 19 years ago

fonts are fine (that's an easy change for browser users to make because we have shortcuts), but visited links should be darker (more of a pain to change for just one site)

dawie• 19 years ago

I think greyed out links on the gray backround makes it harder. Why not use some of the orange for unread links?

jwecker• 19 years ago

ctrl-scrollwheel

naish• 19 years ago

or for Mac users: Shift-⌘+

bluemoo• 19 years ago

If the text looks grey on a grey background, you might be using firefox. The site is much more readable on IE. Not that you should have to change.

zaidf• 19 years ago

I already suggested alternating row colors on all news list pages.

-Zaid

dood• 19 years ago

Drop the background color would work for me.

semigeek• 19 years ago

I think it would be better if there were less items on each page, font was bigger, and we had categories for each submission so that we could filter it.

I love the simplicty of YC News, but it's hard for me to read -- Just me?

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