The horizontal indentation on the comments might be a bit aggressive, and each comment is taking up a great deal of vertical screen real estate. Further, the clickable "more" makes reading long comment threads difficult without a great deal of scrolling.
It seems to be optimized for mobile viewing, which is good. Dobbs knows how I hate clicking tiny links with my fat fingers. But, when behind a desktop client, the CSS could be adjusted such that it takes better advantage of my screen resolution.
@atoponce I kept the same indentation because I wanted to have a familiar design. That tree structure is not easy to display.
Showing all of the comments at once can be a disaster in slow connections. "Show more" button is needed for now. I hope later I can give users the ability to customize how many things to load.
I've only been working on this project for 3-4 days now. Front and back end.
I already have some thoughts on how to handle the comments section, I agree it has to be very efficient cause the whole point of the client is to let you get in and out of the comments section easily. Reading the headlines is the easy part.
If anyone is a designer or has design suggestions, I'm happy to see them.
I have no problem with big links on desktop, but the comments should be smaller. I hate it when text-boxes simply stretch and the regular HN site does this too.
The horizontal indentation on the comments might be a bit aggressive, and each comment is taking up a great deal of vertical screen real estate. Further, the clickable "more" makes reading long comment threads difficult without a great deal of scrolling.
It seems to be optimized for mobile viewing, which is good. Dobbs knows how I hate clicking tiny links with my fat fingers. But, when behind a desktop client, the CSS could be adjusted such that it takes better advantage of my screen resolution.