Nice, but I find it a bit too hard to read. On my Stylebot style, I reduced the orange to just a highlight colour. I find it pretty pleasurable to use. Feel free to take anything from it that you want: http://stylebot.me/styles/2800
Some of the selectors in the CSS are very contrived. I found it was the only way to select what I wanted in a document made of tables within tables with barely any classes.
Also, I totally feel you on this! The underlying HTML for HN is absolutely terrible.
I added a bit more font weight to everything[1]. Repo[2] for anyone that wants to try it out. It's a bit hacky though, I just modified the generated css rather than the styl input.
Oh yeah, I see. I think I'm going to try and implement a low contrast theme, with grey links and easier to read text. Thanks for the link, I'll have a look at it!
Great work, though it's a shame it's a browser extension. You can't use it on Firefox or mobile.
There's a site, tomodo.com, that allows you to modify webpages much like a greasemonkey script or a browser extension and then publish it as a native website. I'd suggest you'll look into that.
Fantastic, thanks for posting. I understand the design aspects of these skin extensions, but I don't want to scroll more than I already do to see the same content.
Many thanks to everyone for the feedback! I'll try implementing the ideas you've given me (easier to read colors and other tweaks).
For those who've installed the extension, it should auto-update when new features come up and you should be notified of the presence of new modules and the low-contrast theme.
I'll try implementing a low-contrast version with less harsh colors soon! About the "Open comments in new tabs" option, yes, that's a very good idea. I'll do that as well!
I just installed it and really like it however when I scroll (quite slowly) down the main page though the text and background blur together so that I can't see anything. I'm not sure if it's because of the thin fonts of the font colours (the headlines seems to blur the most) but it's quite annoying. I'd normally scroll at that speed and be able to skim the headlines. It's impossible to do with the blurring.
I've just installed it and I'm liking it. The links are a bit hard to read on the home-page (they are a bit faded) but otherwise it looks good. Thanks!
Very cool, I like the borderless body area. I agree with Orf on the hard to read (perhaps a little darker links/textbox font?). The other thing is that endless scroll doesn't seem to be working for me.
I like it also. My Special Eyes have trouble with default HN. For me, like orf, the faded colors are a bit of a strain.
Also, if I don't open a story in a new tab, but go out and back, I sometimes have trouble finding the entry I just used (and its comments). A color for "just visited" would be nice.
I'm just say that the colour contrast is atrocious. I've got pretty good eye sight and the text on that screenshot looks blurry. Both the unvisited and visited link states fail at AA colour contrast accessibility levels.
[edit] - It took me a while to find the install link. I thought it was a heading. Why don't you use an underline for links?
I usually like my news sites to have a darker theme, so I quickly threw this together in the Stylish Plugin, to work with your HN Special Extension http://pastebin.com/BhZTuwJV . Just added the style to work with URL's on the domain "ycombinator.com"
I really love the infinite scrolling. I think there should be a bit more contrast. It is hard to read the light colored orange on white. Also the visited (light light orange) is a pain. And maybe highlighting the points a thread has would be a nice feature too. Maybe another darker color for that.
I was thinking about maybe adding a "Low contrast" option to the menu or something like that, which enables a version of the theme with easier to read colors.
What do you mean about highlighting the points in a thread? Making the count below the title more visible?
I like the overall design but the links are too light orange which make it hard to read. Design's number one goal is to 'get out the way of the user'. Change the link color to something with more contrast against the white background. Then I'll really like it.
I like it. It's about time someone do something about it or I was planning to do something like that myself. It would be awesome one could customize the color and fonts and stuffs like that.
The active hyperlink is too fade to read. Please change that.
Did you test it on a MBPr ? The screenshot looks really blurry here. EDIT: it's just the screenshot, the actual extension works fine. A bit more contrast would be appreciated though. Maybe a different background color for links ?
BUT!, it's strange, maybe because I'm SOO used to HN (like I'm soo used to Google), I had to change back. Is it just a case of "you'll get used to it"?
I think so. Maybe try it out for a day or so. If anything's wrong, please let me know what you think!
Oh, by the way: even if you like the features but not the theme, you can easily disable the theme only from the settings menu at the top (the gear icon in the header)!
Fantastic! I've only one suggestion. I'm using a Macbook Pro (Retina), and the up-arrow icons are extremely blurry. Other than that, everything looks amazing. :)
It does need some more contrast. Also, while I do appreciate the elegance overall (I'm a UI designer as well), the vertical space could be tightened up a bit to get some more comments on a scree. Perhaps adding some options to the extension to allow toggling between a "Tight" and "Airy" stylesheet?
Some of the selectors in the CSS are very contrived. I found it was the only way to select what I wanted in a document made of tables within tables with barely any classes.
Also, I totally feel you on this! The underlying HTML for HN is absolutely terrible.