[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
I personally would rather see other usability improvements for touch devices on the size and positioning of the voting buttons and better spacing between the various links to a user’s profile, date and time of submission and others (like hide, past, favorite, discuss, etc.). HN has quite an unsatisfactory UX for touch devices (and arguably even on a mouse pointer interface). I also see these as accessibility issues.
Why the heck do mobile browsers not implement any sort of full page zoom or viewport resizing? (Perhaps better called "page scaling"; it's what desktop browsers do when you press control-plus/control-minus.)
My choice is either to increase the browser's text scaling and deal with tiny UI elements (e.g., upvote/downvote buttons on HN), or pinch-zoom and pan around. Both are awful.
All the machinery for full-page zoom ("page scaling") is already in the browser! Just let me use it!
I tend to prefer light mode, but I have tweaked the styling to extend the tan background to the entire screen (instead of having white surrounding the main table).
> This add-on needs to:
> Access your data for all websites
In an add-on not the appropriate choice?
Firefox permission model needs improvement?
(CSS has become too powerful, a simple style sheet with external reference can leak information about your browsing.)
you should have enough karma to see those options?
Browsing HN in the bed at night feels like staring at the sun (yes I use Night Shift and lowest brightness).
You should instead use "Stylus", which has none of those problems. In spite of all of that, Stylus has only 400,000 users according to the Chrome extension store, compared to 2M for Stylish. There's a lot of people out there accidentally using malware.
For example, here is a nice-looking dark mode for HN which can be installed into Stylus. [2] (I can't personally vouch for it, as I don't use it.)
[1]: https://robertheaton.com/2018/08/16/stylish-is-back-and-you-...
[2]: https://userstyles.org/styles/157400/hacker-news-bluish-gray...
I don't have a developer account for any of the web extension distribution sites/apps, but the source is available and everyone is welcome to use it (or just the CSS file if your browser/setup supports custom CSS).
You can also change colors by setting some uBlockOrigin filters, forgetting where exactly I got the filters from
"Move slowly and preserve things." - @dang.
Use Dark Reader. Don't mess with HN interface, it shall remain the same.
