Stylistically, I think there's way too much white space on the front page. HN has spoiled me.
And if it's supposed to be a HW site that attracts good commenters, there's way, way too much intro level material on the top list right now. I was getting turned off by the several intro to FPGA links but intro to soldering made me close the page. Not that introductory material can't be there, but there is a very low cool stuff to introductory material ratio.
I like the idea a lot, and wish you luck. Hopefully I find it again in a few years and love it and eat my words.
I’ve reduced the font size for small screens so the post density should be higher.
Agree that learning to solder is on the basic side but I thought it would be nice to have some posts for complete beginners.
If you have any feature requests, let me know:
There was a period when every few days there would be a 'HN for 'X'' post.
No one is using 480p CRTs anymore, IDK why HN is still formatted that way. Regardless, I like how it is. My scroll wheel is not poisonous, I'm happy to use it.
One little inspiration from HN would also be nice - adding the age/year of the linked web page to the linked title, so it's easier to see which link refers to recent content.
This is where Lobsters tag/label system comes in handy.
You still get the all tech news frontpage, but if you wanted to filter by hardware - you can do that.
Like so --> https://lobste.rs/t/hardware
This also address the problem of not having enough content for a site to take off, since it's similar to reddit with it's subreddit system.
