I am sorry, But I don't find it better than HN in anyway. Two main reasons why:

1. Too much noise, real strain to focus on each title. The reason why I say that the thumbnails as noise is because it is in no way helping me to decide whether to read an article or not. The only reason I choose an article to read is the title so anything else is mere distraction.

2. Due to the first reason,Skimming is not as easy as the original HN, which is important for all of us here.

But let this not discourage you in anyway. The good thing from what I can see from your work is, you know what you want and you know how to do it.

Thinking of an application based on this UI that you have designed might be browsing pictures in reddit.com/r/pics or imgur. Here the thumbnails of the image at the back will not be a noise, but a useful info to decide on whether to look at the picture or not.

Most of the month (all but a few days) I've only got a 20 kbit/s connection. Let that sink in. Twenty. Kilobits. Per. Second. That's less than the voyager spacecraft (but probably a better ping).

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The front page of Hacker News is 27.75KB and 7 requests.

Hacker News Two is in comparison 2.07MB and 60 requests.

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Hacker News loads in 2.26 seconds.

Hacker New Two loads in 2.5 minutes.

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I'm an edge case. Of all the users on Hacker News, only a handful are on sub-dial-up connections, but does all the added stuff really add so much to a website like Hacker News?

Absolutely love your stack and you should tell more about how you did and write a decent blog post.

And I like and appreciate the idea of improving HN: we all love HN, are addicted and know that there is room for improvement.

But did you make before you started to code any kind of design mockup? In Fireworks or Photoshop? And looked at it a few days? If not you should. It's tempting and often faster to hack and test layouts in Jade and Stylus (or HAML and SASS) but I made the experience that if doing a mockup in Fireworks and just watch and get used to it a few days you get a much better feeling of your product. After a few days you realize bad design choices, start to change and your design and UI slowly matures into something perfect. Usually this takes up to 7 to 14 days.

Current flaws:

- Headers much too small in relation to thumb size and overall layout

- I question the thumbs: do they really offer any benefit? HN articles are often more about text than great visuals and even if i's about images: you'd have just to take one dominating pic of the site and not the whole site

- Too low content density compared to HN

- When showing rankings a single column list always works better than a grid layout because the reader instantly gets who is on #1, #2, #3, etc.

Non-linear layouts (Facebook, Pinterest) are difficult to scan quickly, it requires a lot more concentration.

(I read an article about this property back when Timeline was introduced but I can't seem to find it now.)

I don't like it at all.

I have a fairly fast connection, but I live in Australia and latency is a real issue.

Hacker News loads pretty much instantly. This takes 6.78 seconds to start loading the links - even on a warm cache. Most of that time is spent waiting on a web socket. There's absolutely no reason in the world why a link aggregator needs web sockets.

I can see 18 headlines when I arrive at Hacker News. I can see 6 headlines when I arrive at Hacker News Two.

The headlines are obvious when I arrive at Hacker News. There is a lot of noise between me and the headlines when I arrive at Hacker News Two.

I am going to stick with the original.

This project is awesome mostly because you can see blogspam and linkbait immediately. There are some glitches of articles with no screenshots and the borders on images are HUGE. The github link really should open a new window as the socket connection can take a bit of time when you click back. A link to flag a post and endless scrolling/more would be great. I've used it for a few hours and I'm relieved it gets around the expired or missing link bug that HN suffers from.

Source code: https://github.com/mappum/hackernewstwo

It's very difficult to read or focus on anything in particular, or to skim through everything in general.

Not sure if it's me, but the different width sizes makes it messy and cumbersome to read. I think it would be a lot more organizes if there was some more order to this. Also, not quite sure what the orange bordered stories means.

Awful.

Firstly because it is not an "HN clone" at all but merely the front page.

Secondly, the thumbs are a terrible way to display HN content.

I don't find the screenshots useful at all.

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